#Doctors orders nathaniel

[dc-megatournament]

A Master List of fighters in the “Batman vs Everyone” tournament so far

If a character isn't listed here, they haven't been submitted.

List of the Fights Already Posted w/Results (in Alphabetical Order)

Red = Lost fight Against Batman

Green = Won fight Against Batman

Blue = a third option was taken

Amazing Man/Will Everett = Lost

Ambush Bug/Irwin Schwab = Lost

Amy Rose =

Angus MacGyver =

Animal Man/Buddy Baker = Lost

Ant-Man/Hank Pym = Lost

Aquaman/Arthur Curry = Lost

Arsenal/Roy Harper = Lost

Artemis =

Atom Smasher/Albert Rothstein = Lost

Avatar Aang = Third option; Bruce attempts to adopt Aang

Azrael/Jean Paul Valley = Lost

Aztek/Uno = Lost

Baked Beans =

Barbie = Won

Batgirl/Cassandra Cain = Won

Batman Beyond/Terry McGinnis = Lost

Batwing/David Zavimbe = Lost

Batwoman/Kate Kane =

Beast/Hank McCoy = Lost

Beetlejuice = Lost

Ben Tennyson = Lost

Big Barda/Barda Free = Won

Big Hero 6 = Lost

Black Canary/Dinah Laurel Lance = Lost

Black Cat/Felicia Hardy = Lost

Black Lightning/Jefferson Pierce = Lost

Black Orchid/Susan Linden = Lost

Black Panther/T’Challa = Won

Blade/Eric Brooks = Lost

Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes = Lost

Blue Beetle/Ted Kord = Lost

Blue Devil/Dan Cassidy = Lost

Booster Gold/Michael Jon Carter = Lost

Bucky Barnes = Lost

Buffy Summers = Won

Bugs Bunny = Won

Captain America/Sam Wilson = Lost

Captain America/Steve Rogers = Lost

Captain Atom/Nathaniel Adam = Lost

Captain Cold/Leonard Snart = Lost

Captain Jack Sparrow = Lost

Captain Marvel/Billy Batson = Won

Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers = Lost

Cassie Hack = Lost

Catwoman/Selina Kyle = Third Option; They make out instead

Citizen Steel/Nathan Heywood = Lost

Cosmo and Wanda = Won

Cyblade/Dominique Thiebaut = Lost

Cyborg/Victor Stone = Lost

Darwin/Armando Muñoz =

Deadman/Boston Brand = Lost

Deku/Izuku Midoriya = Lost, Gains a father through Batman

Detective Chimp/Bobo T. Chimpanzee = Lost

Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom = Won

Doctor Fate/Kent Nelson = Won

Doctor Fate/Khalid Nassour = Lost

Doctor Fate/Linda Strauss = Lost

Doctor Light/Kimiyo Hoshi = Lost

Donald Duck = Won

Dr. Mid Nite/Charles McNider = Lost

Dracula (Castlevania) = Lost

Echo/Maya Lopez = Lost

Eda Clawthorne = Lost

Elektra Natchios = Lost

Elongated Man/Ralph Dibny = Lost

Elsa = Lost

Emma Frost = Won

Enchantress/June Moone = Lost

Etrigan/Jason Blood = Lost

Finn & Jake = Won

Fire/Beatriz da Costa = Lost

Firestorm/Jason Rusch = Lost

Firestorm/Ronnie Raymond = Lost

Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze = Lost

Godiva/Dorcas Leigh = Lost

Godzilla = Won

Goku = Won

Green Arrow/Connor Hawke = Lost

Green Arrow/Oliver Queen = Lost

Green Goblin/Norman Osborn = Lost

Green Lantern/Guy Gardner = Lost

Green Lantern/Jessica Cruz = Lost

Green Lantern/John Stewart = Lost

Green Lantern/Kyle Rayner = Won

Green Lantern/Simon Baz = Lost

Gundam Aerial =

Gwen Tennyson = Lost

Gypsy/Cynthia Reynolds =

Hatsune Miku = Won

Hawkgirl/Kendra Saunders = Lost

Hawkman/Katar Hol/Carter Hall = Lost

Hawkwoman/Shayera Hol/Shiera Hall = Lost

Heather (TDI) = Won

Hellboy = Lost

Hello Kitty =

Hua Cheng =

Hulk/Bruce Banner = Lost

Human Torch/Johnny Storm = Lost

Huntress/Helena Bertinelli = Lost

Invincible/Mark Grayson = Lost

Invisible Woman/Sue Storm = Lost

Iron Man/Tony Stark = Lost

Jade/Jennifer-Lynn Hayden = Lost

Jar Jar Binks =

Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9 = Lost

Jerry (Tom & Jerry) = Won

Jesse Quick/Jessie Chambers = Lost

Jessica Jones = Lost

Jim Gordon = Lost

John Constantine = Lost

John Wick = Won

Katana/Tatsu Yamashiro = Lost

Katsuki Bakugou = Lost

Kim Possible = Won

Kirby =

Ladybug/Marinette Dupain-Cheng & Cat Noir/Adrien Agreste = Lost

Light Yagami = Lost

Lobo = Lost

Luke Cage = Lost

Luke Skywalker = Lost

Madame Mirage/Angela Temple = Lost

Madame Xanadu = Lost

Magik/Illyana Rasputin = Won

Man-Bat/Dr. Robert Kirkland Langstrom = Lost

Manhunter/Kate Spencer = Lost

Mariah Carey =

Mario & Luigi = Won

Martian Manhunter/J’onn J’onnz = Lost

Maxima = Lost

Megatron = Lost

Metamorpho/Rex Mason = Lost

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers = Lost

Mister Miracle/Scott Free = Lost

 Mizu = Lost

Mon-El/Lar Gand = Lost

Monkey D Luffy = Won

Moon Knight/Marc Spector = Lost

Mr Rogers = third option; convinced Bruce to go to therapy

Mr Fantastic/Reed Richards = Lost

Ms Marvel/Kamala Khan = Lost

Mystery Inc (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, Scooby) = Won

Naruto Uzamaki = Lost

Nightshade/Eve Eden = Lost

Nightwing/Dick Grayson = Won

Nimona = Won

Oracle/Barbara Gordon = Won

Orion = Lost

Percy Jackson = Won

Phantom Stranger = Lost

Phineas & Ferb = third option; Batman hires P & F

Pikachu = Won

Pink Panther = Won

Plastic Man/Patrick "Eel" O'Brian = Lost

Powergirl/Kara Zor L/Karen Starr = Lost

Powerhouse/Naomi McDuffie = Lost

Power Puff Girls =

Queen Hippolyta = Won

Raven =

Red Hood/Jason Todd = Won

Red Tornado/Ulthoon = Lost

Regina George = Won

Rick Grimes = Lost

Robin/Damian Wayne = Lost

Robin/Tim Drake = Lost

Rocket Red/Dmitri Pushkin = Lost

Rocket Red/Gavril Ivanovich = Lost

Rogue/Anna Marie LeBeau = Won

Sailor Moon/Usagi Tsukino = Won

Saitama = Won

Sally Jackson =

Sanderson Sisters (Winifred, Mary, Sarah) = Lost

Sara Pezzini = Lost

Shade, the Changing Man/Rac Shade =

Sharon Carter = Lost

She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters = Lost

Shen Qingqiu = Lost

She-Ra/Adora =

Snoopy & Woodstock = Won

Sogeking/Usopp = Won

Sonic the Hedgehog = Won

Spawn/Al Simmons = Lost

Spider-Man/Miles Morales = Lost

Spider-Man/Peter Parker =

Spider Woman/Jessica Drew = Lost

Spoiler/Stephanie Brown = Won

Squirrel Girl/ Doreen Green = Won

Star Butterfly = Lost

Starfire/Koriand’r = Won

Starman/Mikaal Tomas = Lost

Star Sapphire/Carol Ferris = Lost

Steven Universe = Third option; Batman attempted to adopt Steven

Stitch/Experiment 626 = Won

Storm/Ororo Munroe = Won

Strawberry Shortcake = Won

Supergirl/Kara Danvers/Kara Zor-El = Won

Superman/Clark Kent/Kal El =

Terezi Pyrope = Lost

The Atom/Ray Palmer = Lost

The Atom/Ryan Choi = Lost

The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo = Lost

The Crow/Eric Draven = Lost

The Cullens (Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Jasper, Rosalie, Alice, Emmett) = Lost

The Darkness/Jackie Estacado = Lost

The Doctor = Third Option; Bruce becomes The Doctor's companion

The Flash/Jay Garrick = Lost

The Flash/Wally West Lost

The Punisher/Frank Castle = Lost

The Question/Renee Montoya = Lost

The Signal/Duke Thomas =

The Warner Siblings = Won

Thor = Lost

Tigress/Artemis Crock =

TMNT =

Toph Beifong =

Troia/Donna Troy = Won

Uncle Iroh = Won

Vampirella = Lost

Vibe/Cisco Ramon = Lost

Vixen/Mari McCabe = Lost

Walter White = Lost

Wasp/Janet Van Dyne = Lost

Wolverine/James “Logan” Howlett = Won

Wolverine/X-23/Laura Kinney = Won

Wonder Woman/Diana Prince =

Wonder Woman/Nubia = Won

Word Girl/Becky Botsford = Won

Xie Lian = Lost

Yami Yugi = Lost

Zheng Shang-Chi = Lost

Fights That Have Yet to Be Posted (also in Alphabetical Order)

Adam West Batman

Alfred Pennyworth

Alphonse Elric

Andros (Power Rangers)

Annabeth Chase

Arceus

Baldi

Batman/Jace Fox

Batwing/Luke Fox 

Bill Cipher

Bingo Heeler

Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

Bluebird/Harper Row

Bluey Heeler

Brody Foxx

Captain Kirk 

Crazy Jane 

Cybersix

Cyclops

Danny Phantom

Daredevil/Matt Murdock

Darth Vader

Dazai Osamu

Dolly Parton

Donald Trump

Duolingo Owl

Ed Dillinger (TRON)

Edward Elric

Element Woman/Emily Sung

Eliot Spencer

Ellie (TLoU)

Elon Musk

Elric of Melninbone

Elsa Bloodstone

Eva-02

Ezio Auditore

Firestar

Flamebird/Bette Kane

Gabby Kinney

Geo-Force/Brion Markov

Ghoulia Yelps

Giovanni Zatara

Green Lantern/Hal Jordan 

Grumpy Bear

Hawkeye/Clint Barton

Ice/Tora Olafsdotter   

Iceman/Bobby Drake

Ichigo Kurosaki 

Jean Grey

Jenny Sparks

Joel Miller (TLoU) 

John Egbert

Joker - Persona 2

Joker - Persona 5

Jubilee/Jubilation Lee

Katara 

Kazuma Kiryu

Kisuke Urahara

Kuchipatchi

Lan Wangji

Legion/David Haller

Lieutenant Columbo

Link

Lin Manuel Miranda

Lionblaze

Luo Binghe

Mary Poppins

Max Tennyson

May Chang

Mickey Mouse

Midnighter

Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

Obsidian/Todd Rice

Onyx Adams

Optimus Prime 

Ozymandias

Plastique/Bette Sans Souci

Prodigy/David Alleyne

Puss in Boots

Roronoa Zoro

Ryu (Street Fighter)

Santa Claus 

Scar (FMA)

Slenderman

Sokka

Solid Snake

Spectrum/Monica Rambeau

Stan Pines

Stargirl/Courtney Whitmore

Steel/John Henry Irons

Steve (Blue Clues)

Swamp Thing/Alec Holland

Taylor Swift

The Flash/Barry Allen

The Immortal Snail

The Pope 

The Question/Vic Sage

The Ray/Ray Terrill

The Shredder

The Thing/Ben Grimm

Tin Tin

Tom Cruise

Tyson

Ultraman

Vacuum from Teletubbies

Velvet Crowe

Voltron

Wei Wuxian

Winry Rockbell 

Zatanna Zatara

[zahri-melitor]

A list of DC characters that it is actually important to be able to tell apart, but half the time people forget:-

Plastic Man and Elastic Man: Eel O'Brien is the red one who turns into weird shapes and cracks jokes; Ralph Dibney is the purple one who is a detective who adores his wife.

Atom and Captain Atom: Ray Palmer is the one who shrinks down and does science; Nathaniel Adam is the nuclear explosions guy who's part of the military.

Jason Blood and Jason Bard and Jason Todd: Blood is the host to Etrigan and a demonologist; Bard is a private detective who's an ex-cop; Todd is an ex-Robin and current Red Hood. Both Blood and Todd have white streaks in their hair. They all live in Gotham.

Manhunter and Martian Manhunter: the Manhunters are about 6 different human characters, with little overlap in costumes or aims (they all like killing people who evade justice though); J'onn is a Green Martian who reads minds.

Doctor Light (good) and Doctor Light (bad): Kimiyo Hoshi is a superhero who does hard light projections; Arthur Light's a supervillain who got mindwiped by the JL to the point of stupidity. (I've skipped disambiguing other legacy names but this one is kinda important).

Azrael and Azazel: JPV and the other Azraels are human warriors controlled/brainwashed by Order of St Dumas; Azazel is a Sandman fallen angel hanging out with Lucifer.

This is brought to you by someone saying "Captain Atom is a fascist!" and me squinting and going...Ray Palmer??? Is a fascist? But no.

[just-a-dinosaur-i-guess]

tell about ur aus,,, go on

HELLO TY FOR THIS ASK

i have so fucking many aus so i'll ramble about a few

my latest one takes inspiration from this post and it's basically, dazai takes in atsushi and the akutagawa siblings, but realizing he can't really find a job to support all of them at once, he decides to go and (try to) reopen odasaku's favorite curry place. there are a few issues.

he is Not a great cook

atsushi can only make chazuke

aku and gin don't know how to cook

the place is kind of a mess

so eventually he goes and calls up chuuya and he's like "hey, you know how to cook, can you help me" problem is, chuuya's pissed at him bc THIS is when he calls him again and it's not an explanation of why he left, not a "sorry for blowing up ur car", not any of that, it's just another favor. so his immediate response is "fuck you, no" and dazai has to nag him into coming and helping, this being via taking some random pm member for hostage and specifically requesting that chuuya come pick him up

chuuya does indeed arrive, but he also breaks dazai's nose, so dazai ends up vaguely explaining with an ice pack on his face lmfao. this bit is what i have planned most vividly and is hopefully? gonna be a fic i publish. but also, later, ranpo ends up at the curry place and is like "damn you live like this" and dazai replies just kinda, "either order or get out" but ranpo offers him a better job (that being working at the ada), and while he hesitantly agrees, it's only a part time thing for the first bit. also although i haven't decided yet i think he might also end up finding kyouka before the pm gets to her and tachihara before the hunting dogs find him bc i am weak to 1. found family 2. BIG found families.

chuuya is absolutely fucking baffled when he runs into dazai during an ada job, btw.

"i thought you ran a fucking curry shop" "i do that too" "?? what the fuck" "it's called being a PART TIMER chibi" "i'm gonna break your nose again"

anyway next au!!

cowboy au (btw, they still have abilities) where nathaniel is a travellng priest looking for a doctor to cure margaret who's deathly sick, and he hasn't really been having any luck (he's been searching for months to no avail), and eventually at this one town it's like.. it's late at night, nathaniel's thirsty, he heads to the bar to get some water. nikolai promptly swaps their drinks, nathaniel drinks something really strong and passes the fuck out, wakes up to being in an inn room (with noteably less money) and storms the hell out of the building just to find nikolai petting his horse and acting all innocent about doing anything. nathaniel just tries to leave, nikolai follows, and they travel like that for a bit (occasionally trying to kill each other) before they get the third member of their dysfunctional little party

do you remember that one kid fyodor killed?

this little guy (karma), is a pickpocket who steals nathaniel's bible in the hopes of selling it to get food. the two find him, both kinda realize his situation and while nathaniel is about to point him in the direction of the town's local church nikolai goes "fuck that" and just straight up kidnaps him, and they keep traveling. nathaniel and nikolai are mutually, regrettably, falling for one another, but this just manifests as more murder attempts, to the point that one night, nathaniel tries to strangle nikolai, nikolai wakes up and strangles him back, and when nathaniel passes out he fucking dreams about nikolai and is HORRIFIED. things only get worse and gayer from there and i also think they go on a train at some point.

karma's enjoying the horse rides at least, and there's some other characters that show up though tbh idk who besides this one dazai scene and gin at one point

okay this other au is shorter, but basically: ada kajii. this is built off of SO many headcanons, but essentially kajii's backstory is just the lemon short story. except that kajii never found lemons, bc instead kunikida (his old friend/school friend that fell out of contact with him) reaches out, they become friends again, and so when kunikida joins the ada, so does kajii. kajii works as a clerk bc, like, he doesn't. know he has an ability. Oh Boy Does He Get A Surprise during dead apple

okay i was gonna talk about my eternal winter au but that would be an essay /lh

SO instead!! shiburan au, an au i never. properly named beyond that it's a shibusawa x ranpo focused au. also co owned with my bestie @feralshadowdemon <33

basically, yokohama is a smaller, calmer seaside town, no abilities or anything. shibusawa moves in, working at the pet shop across the street from this coffee shop that's connected to a bookstore. the coffee shop is run by (most of) the ada, and the bookstore is run by yokomizo; mushitaro and poe work there. the members of the ada who work at the coffee shop are fukuzawa (he owns it), ranpo, kunikida, and yosano. dazai is fukuzawa's newest adopted kid, and ran away from home. (he was living with mori (and elise) before) yosano Understands his situation, having done the same years before.

ranpo starts going over to the pet shop a lot, both bc he's running errands (fukuzawa owns three cats) and bc he likes talking to shibusawa. they eventually exchange phone numbers and start texting. in the background of this, btw, is soukoku: they had a messy breakup years ago, they act like they don't like each other, etc etc normal skk things. the flags are a biker gang who are alive and well here, and chuuya hangs out with them a lot. dazai is a bit jealous of them, ranpo knows this, and so when chuuya starts volunteering at the pet shop, ranpo brings dazai along on an errand run so the two run into each other again. they start talking again, slowly bonding again by virtue of wingmaning shiburan

also misc details

dazai and aku are just. they are just friends here :)

aku and tachi are friends!! also higugin is real

the akutagawa siblings live with hirotsu

fukuchi is the hunting dogs' dad; except for tetchou, who's jouno's boyfriend. he has stricter parents.

fukuchi here is a retired military veteran AND ex movie star. his movies are awful /aff

shibusawa has a pet cornsnake named draconia

odango is engaged here but oda travels a lot so they haven't got married yet

ango works in an office in the big city, but he visits dazai sometimes. they are friends

bramcraft is married, they adopted aya

kyouka and kenji also live with fukuzawa!! twincoded tbh

kyouka has narcolepsy

there is so much more but i have been writing this post for an hour SO just shoot me (another) ask if you're curious :D

and yeah that's some of my aus!! i have a masterpost of all of them slowly being built in my drafts hehe

[brokehorrorfan]

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Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz) directs from a script by Daniel Mainwaring (Out of the Past). Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter star with Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, and Ralph Dumke.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers has been newly restored in 4K in two aspect ratios - 2.00:1 and 1.85:1 - with Dolby Vision. It features reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (new)

Audio commentary by film scholar Jason A. Ney (new)

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Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson (new)

Audio commentary by film scholar Jason A. Ney (new)

Audio commentary by actors Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, moderated by filmmaker Joe Dante

Audio commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith

The Fear is Real - Appreciation with filmmakers Joe Dante and Larry Cohen

The Stranger in Your Lover’s Eyes – 2-part visual essay with Kristoffer Tabori, son of director Don Siegel

I No Longer Belong: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger – Film scholar Matthew Bernstein on producer Walter Wanger

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[brigdh]

Is it mid-February? Yes. Am I only just now getting around to finishing up reviewing the books I read in 2024? Also yes.

My Statistics: Total Read: 59 books By women: 29 books, 49% of the total By People of Color: 5, 8% (Oof, really need to up that for 2025) Books I managed to get off my TBR list: 27, 48% New books I bought: 8, 14% Reviews written: 51, 86%. The ones I haven't reviewed at this point I either don't remember well enough to have much to say, or are too similar to another one I did review. I've linked all the reviews I did write down below.

Top Five Books, in no particular order:

King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett

The Devourers, Indra Das

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannan Chakraborty

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, Emma Southon

Rough Trade, Katrina Carrasco

Bottom Five Books:

Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg, trans by Tiina Nunnally

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, William Manchester

The Whale: A Love Story, Mark Beauregard

Better the Blood, Michael Bennett

The Burning Girls, C.J. Tudor

Complete list of the books I read in 2024 under the cut

January:

Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby Dick, George Cotkin

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannan Chakraborty

Death and Hard Cider, Barbara Hambly

Better the Blood, Michael Bennett

February:

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, Emma Southon

Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet

Worn: A People’s History of Clothing, Sofi Thanhauser

The Piazza Tales, Herman Melville

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years, Elizabeth Berber

March:

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St. Clair

Spain: the Centre of the World, 1519-1682, Robert Goodwin

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World, William Egginton

The Spanish Inquisition, Helen Rawlings

Lope de Vega – Three Major Plays, Trans. Gwynne Edwards

April:

Imperial Spain, J.H. Elliott

Don Quixote, Cervantes. Trans. Grossman

Don Quixote, Cervantes. Trans. Lathrop

May:

Spanish Society, 1348-1700, Teofilo F. Ruiz

Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brian

June:

Dante in Love: The World’s Greatest Poem and How It Made History, Harriet Rubin

Kiss Her Once For Me, Alison Cochrun

Italy in the Central Middle Ages, Ed, David Abulafia

July:

System Collapse, Martha Wells

Melville: His World and Work, Andrew Delbanco

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity, Prue Shaw

August:

King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett

All the White Spaces, Ally Wilkes

Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg, trans by Tiina Nunnally

Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

A History of Magic and Witchcraft: Sabbats, Satan and Superstitions in the West, Frances Timbers

Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England, Gemma Hollman

September:

The Divine Comedy: Hell, Dante, trans by Dorothy Sayers

The Inferno, Dante, trans by Robert and Jean Hollander

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Dante, trans by Robin Kirkpatrick

Sub Rosa, Jennifer Burke

The Ruin of All Witches, Malcolm Gaskill

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream, Charles Spencer

Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader who Changed the Course of History, Giles Milton

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, William Manchester

From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, Barbara Newman

October:

The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers

The Golden Day: A Study in American Literature and Culture, Lewis Mumford

The Burning Girls, C.J. Tudor

The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom

From Below, Darcy Coates

How to Survive in the North, Luke Healy

The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, Emerson W. Baker

When No One Is Watching, Alyssa Cole

The Devourers, Indra Das

November:

Rough Trade, Katrina Carrasco

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory, Dante, trans by Dorothy Sayers

Purgatorio, Dante, trans by Robert and Jean Hollander

The Central Middle Ages, Europe 950-1320, Daniel Power, ed

December:

Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, Paula Guran, ed

Love and Death in the American Novel, 2nd ed, Leslie Fiedler

The Whale: A Love Story, Mark Beauregard

Dayswork, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, Kevin Fedarko

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of the Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny

[aswallowimprisoned]

Restless far from a Wine Dark sea - Stay with me

Tw captivity, sedation, medical whump, implied very bad medical procedure, guilt, nonhuman whumpee

In all of Logan's career as a negotiator and interrogator, he has never had to convince someone to submit to a vivisection. The experience leaves him feeling uncharacteristically emotional.

RestlessffaWDs' timeline is going off piste for @medwhumpmay

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Not sure how far into Nathaniel's captivity this is, but long enough that his two interrorgators are starting to feel the emotional strain. I

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Logan sat down heavily next to Elias, who slid him a black coffee across the table.

“Did they get him under ok?” Elias asked quietly.

“Yes.” Logan accepted the coffee without meeting Elias’ eyes, “Dr Rana says the vivisection will take 6 hours, then he will be groggy for some time afterwards.” Logan sighed into his coffee, “The pain plus the sedatives makes the wakeup a high risk for flashbacks, but alas…”

“We’ll work something out.” Elias’ voice was assured in a way that Logan’s anthropologist brain knew was faked. “ We’ve done it before, and I know we have to do it again…” 

“You will work something out.” Logan cut him off, “I am just the interrogator that orders him to comply. You are the therapist who picks up the fucked up little pieces afterwards.”  Logan allowed the bitterness to well into his voice, the emotion he masked in every interaction; interactions with the military, interactions with the doctors, interactions with the fucking merman he had just convinced to lie still while they prepared to slice into his body and see what he was made of.

“I suppose so.” Elias was quiet for a moment, “We both have our roles here, and neither of them are easy. But it could be so much worse for that merman than it is. And you prevent that, even if he never sees the effort you make.”

“Couldn’t prevent the vivisection.” Logan could feel himself pouting.

“No, I guess we couldn’t.” Elias stared into his own coffee. 

The silence stretched.

“I… I am glad you are actually talking about your frustration though.” Elias gave Logan a lopsided smile, “You do tend to bottle your emotions…”

“Hmmm, what gave my emotional constipation away?” Logan asked dryly.

“I am a very good therapist,” Elias laughed without humour, “It’s what I am here for after all.”

“It is what we are here for.”

“But seriously, Logan, we can talk about this. You aren’t alone here, and we are probably going to be in this project for the long haul.”

“I don’t want to talk,” The spike of frustration that had welled in him was already smoothing into the familiar indifference his job forced him to take. “I don’t want to talk,” he repeated, “But for now, can you just… stay with me?”

Elias gave him the understanding smile of a man who knew the terrors they had both committed.

“Of course.”

[striderincosmos]

WIP Whenever

As tagged by @swaps55, and inviting any who wish to participate! (I'm not exactly linked to many writers on here just yet)

Here's a sneak peak (a nice, long one) between Nathaniel 'Nate' Shepard and Garrus on their way to Feros in Spectre Echoes: Memories and Portents!

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The crew area was a rather bustling place at the moment, what with the new additions to the crew. It made Garrus stand out even more at the table, dressed in a shirt and pants that accommodated the slight crest of his upper back.

Nate took a seat next to him, a human beer in one hand and a turian brew from a case he’d had assigned to the Normandy’s cold storage in the other. “Evening, Garrus,” he said casually, offering the brew. “How are you holding up?”

“Rather well, honestly,” Garrus said as he took his drink, opening it and taking a sip. “This sort of environment is easy for me, no matter the species. I might have decided to go to C-Sec over joining the reserves in a decade or so, but you can’t beat out nearly a decade of military training.”

“What made you go into C-Sec in the first place?” Nate asked.

“It was the family business,” Garrus shrugged. “My father had been C-Sec before getting pulled out from the Reserves for Relay-314, and his father before him had done the same thing. Still don’t know why the old man went into politics, though. Even C-Sec is simpler than that.”

Nate shrugged. “I try to avoid politics. When you have a camera pointed at you more often than not…”

“I can see how that’d be the case,” Garrus said, pausing for long moments. “So, I’ve got a question for you about Saren.”

“Funny enough, I’ve actually got one for you, too,” Nate said. “You first.”

“Are you really planning on trying to arrest Saren and drag him in front of the Council after what he’s done?”

Nate ruminated on the query with a pull of beer. “It’d be what the Council wants done, most likely. Saren’s dangerous, but if we can subdue him, he needs to face due process.”

Garrus’s mandibles drooped slightly, the action looking almost like a grimace. Or a sneer. “There’s a lot of risk to that too, though. He isn’t the best Spectre the Council has for nothing. He could probably find half a dozen different ways to escape during transit to the Citadel, let alone what he could do if he was on it.”

“We know he’s the most dangerous person in the galaxy,” Nate said assuringly. “If there’s anyone who can guard him, it’s going to be all of us and the krogan along for the ride.”

“That wouldn’t stop the Council from offering clemency, or just finding some way to sweep this under the rug,” Garrus retorted. “But taking him in is the way it’s done by the book, isn’t it? ‘Do it right, or don’t do it at all’.”

Nate frowned slightly at the rather bitter invective. “And who said that?”

“Lucrius Vakarian,” Garrus said, washing the name back down with a pull of his brew. “Among the most renowned detectives on the Citadel. Spirits know he said to me more times than I can count.”

“Not a regulations guy, then?” 

Garrus sighed quietly. “I get why they’re there. I get that they’re useful. My father and C-Sec drilled that into me well enough. But sometimes, in order to resolve a situation permanently, completely, the regs, and the people who enforce them, can make it so that a solution becomes a stopgap. People get away. Innocents get taken advantage of or hurt when they don’t need to.”

Garrus was silent for a moment. “Take Doctor Saleon.”

“Who’s that?”

“He was — probably is still — one of the leading figures of the Citadel’s black markets. Specifically in grown organs. Real mean bastard. In a place where a krogan who’s well-connected enough could drop 40,000 credits for a full quad transplant to try and counteract the genophage, Saleon was a unique brand of fucked up.” 

“See, there was an increase in organ trade, well beyond what we expected. We managed to confiscate some, and do some genetic tests. It was a bit of a mess, but it led us to a very lively turian who was very insistent that he was not, in fact, missing his liver. We ran a background check, and saw he worked for the aforementioned doctor.”

“What did you do next?” Nate asked.

“We brought him and some of Saleon’s other former employees in for questioning. While I was interviewing one of them, I noticed something suspicious. One of the detainees, a human, started bleeding from his abdomen during questioning. Pretty badly, too. We offered to patch him up, and he got panicky.”

Garrus paused, was silent for long moments. “We found dozens of incision scars on him. Some of them fresh, like the one that gave him away. Others much older. That’s when we realized this sick bastard Saleon wasn’t just employing people. He was testing on them. Growing the organs right inside of them, then cutting them open, harvesting them, and selling them off. Most of the test subjects were poor, desperate. They only got a small cut of the profits from any sale, and only if the organs were viable. If they weren’t, he just… left them inside them.”

The beer wasn’t very appealing to Nate anymore, and he set it on the table at arm’s length. “What happened then?” he ventured. 

“We went out to go and put the cuffs on this guy. But he rigged his lab to blow, ran as soon as his mules started getting pulled in by C-Sec. Took some of his ‘employees’ with him to the nearest spacedock. By the time we found where he was, the ship he stole was already leaving. He threatened to kill who were now his hostages if anyone tried to stop him.”

“And he got away?” Nate said incredulously.

Garrus nodded. “I ordered Citadel defenses to intercept and fire on him, but C-Sec HQ countermanded my order. They were worried about the hostages. Worried about civilian casualties for how close he still was to the city arms. I told them the hostages were already the next best thing to dead, that this was just the cold, hard calculus of stopping a criminal like this now and for good. But they wouldn’t listen.”

Nate sighed. “Sounds like a recipe for hating where you work.”

“To put it mildly.” Garrus chuckled darkly. “I went to Executor Pallin, the man in charge of C-Sec, and told him what I thought about the situation and the policies that made it happen. He told me if I didn’t like it, then I could quit. To be honest, I almost did, just to spite them.”

“As tough a choice as it is, the lives of the hostages were as important as catching Doctor Saleon,” Nate said pointedly. “If we didn’t care about the lives of those threatened by the people we want to bring to justice, how different are we from them?”

It was silent between them for a moment before Garrus sighed quietly. “You know, I can see where you’re coming from. I just wish we could have stopped Saleon as well.”

Again it was silent. “So,” Garrus said after a moment, “what was your question?”

“You’ve got a personal stake in this,” Nate began. “I won’t begrudge that, and I won’t discount that we might need to kill Saren to stop him. But if we do manage to capture him… can I count on you to let justice play out?”

Garrus was silent for long, contemplative moments. “As much as it might grate at me…” he finally said. “I’ll trust your judgment. You’ve got a good head on your shoulders, Shepard. However the stellar wind blows, I’ll follow your lead.”

Nate nodded. “I’m glad you have my back, Garrus.”

“I mean hey,” Garrus said, his mandibles implying a slight grin, “I get to learn what a Spectre looks like from you. Thus far, I’d say I’ve got a pretty good mentor.”

[icanbeyourgenie]

“ You're playing hard to get... I mean, to know. Hard to know. ” – Achilles to Nathaniel

Nathaniel fought a smile. It wasn't really effective.

“Hard to get?” he teased.

“To know.” Achilles corrected again. “Just a slip of the tongue.”

Nathaniel dropped it, but inside he felt a pleasant warmth. He was only with Achilles for a few days - just three really - but he could already tell how infatuated he was with the doctor. He should have already gone back to the sea, the traces of his victim were gone by now, but he couldn't bring himself to leave the man just yet.

“Well, as much as I'd love to say I'm just playing the mysterious card, I'm not. I genuinely can't answer this question.”

“Why not?”

“Because I don't remember.”

Achilles raised an eyebrow. The two of them had spent the last days talking about many things and asking each other questions. There were a lot Nate couldn't answer, especially regarding his family. Because he had to keep it secret, but also because he didn't want Achilles' attitude to change.

But the last question Achilles asked was about his time before he was a siren. And as much as he wished to remember, he couldn't.

“Because you're asking about a time before I can remember. Sirens don't have memories of before their transformation.”

Nathaniel could see he picked Achilles' interest. He quickly learnt that the man had a very good memory, maybe the concept of not remembering was foreign to him?

“I see.... Can I try something?”

“That's onimous.” Nate answered, but Achilles laughed while coming a bit closer, and it was enough to bring back the butterflies.

“Just... trust me?”

So he did. Achilles came a bit closer against, and softly touched Nathaniel's temple with his fingers. The contact sent shivers down Nate's spine. They were very close now, but none of them seemed to care.

Nathaniel closed his eyes on instinct, and then something strange happened. It was just noises at first. A voice calling his name, the sound of the wind blowing through the trees, and then a face. A face of a man who looked like him. Who was smiling.

It lasted only a second but when Nate opened his eyes, his breathing was out of control and he realized he had grabbed Achilles' hand. He didn't know yet if he intended to move it away, or to keep it on his temple, so he just froze and looked at the man. Nate was breathing heavily, confusion in his eyes.

“What... what just happened?”

“It's my fault, I should've asked, I just wanted to see if I could... Well, the thing with memories is that they're never really lost. Even when we forget, they're here somewhere.”

“So... this voice... this face...?”

“I don't know who they are. But I can tell that your memories are here. If you want to, I can retrieve them for you.”

Nathaniel was still breathing heavily, but at some point Achilles fully took his hand in his and was gently stroking his skin, which helped him relax a little.

Nate felt his entire world shifting. He was convinced that his memories of his previous life were lost. He made his peace with that a long time ago. But now he could have them back? He didn't know yet if he wanted too? What if they were terrible?

“Just breathe. You don't have to answer right now.”

Nathaniel realized that Achilles came a bit closer in order to calm him down. Strangely, it worked. His breathing came back to normal and he smiled while looking at the doctor.

“I don't have the answer yet, but what I can tell you is that I was right.”

“On what point?”

“You're a very, very intriguing man. I can't wait to know more about your story.”

[hauntedfalcon]

there is ground to break, whatever's still to come

4,000 words of the bottom table OT3 inviting Nathaniel over for an evening. Nathaniel's POV; rated E; light Dom/sub featuring some overstimulation; please mind the tags.

The doctor tensed and gasped and widened her eyes. She did not give voice to it. This matched what Nathaniel had come to know of Doctor Basar, but where was the woman whose boldness astonished Nathaniel when she invited him here? Perhaps it was time he gave her an order. Nathaniel said, “Open your legs, Doctor.” She hesitated. Her left hand trailed down from Marion’s hair, gloved fingertips stroking along his spine, and Nathaniel recalled how those fingertips felt in the same place on his own back without the glove there to contain her flames. “Do you know,” said Doctor Basar, “that I technically outranked you?”

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[scumgristle]

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Agents of SHIELD Villain Showdown

Ok, so I wanted to make a poll to determine the best AoS villain, but there's so many I couldn't just choose 10, so I decided to make a showdown.

I will be posting a series of polls where you can choose between 2 villains. The first round of brackets will be posted tomorrow under the #aos villain showdown tag.

Rules:

It's pretty simple, just vote one of the two villains in each poll.

It doesn't matter how you choose the villain, it can be your favourite, the one you think has the most relevance, the one you think is a bigger threat...

Candidates:

There's A LOT of villains in this show, so I made a bunch of brackets, which you can find here. The villains in each bracket were chosen from this website. I made a list (under the cut) and then randomized the order. I picked the ones I thought to be more relevant, but if you have any suggestions, please let me know and I will add them!

This is the list of villains I chose, ordered by season to make things easier. Let me know if I've missed any!

Season 1

Grant Ward.

John Garrett.

Raina.

Ian Quinn.

Dr Franklin Hall.

Jasper Sitwell.

Lorelei.

Season 2

Cal Johnson.

Jiaying.

Gordon.

Carl Creel (Absorbing Man).

Kara Palamas (Agent 33).

Daniel Whitehall.

Sunil Bakshi.

Werner von Strucker.

Season 3

Hive.

Lash.

Gideon Malick.

Season 4

AIDA/Madame Hydra.

Holden Radcliffe.

The Watchdogs.

The Doctor.

Alistair Fitz.

Anton Ivanov.

Eli Morrow.

Ellen Nadeer.

James Taylor James (Hellfire).

Lucy Bauer.

Tucker Shockley.

Season 5

Kasius.

Sinara.

Glenn Talbot (Graviton).

Ruby Hale.

General Hale.

Faulnak.

Qovas.

Season 6

Sarge.

Izel.

Snowflake.

Jaco.

Atarah.

Pax.

Season 7

Nathaniel Malick.

Sibyl.

[awritingcaitlin]

Introductions...

Have some short snippets of each major character introduction under the cut. Because why not!

Killian

Twelve tiny vials were lined up in a neat row, well-protected inside the leather briefcase on Captain McCormack’s lap. Each was luminescent, shining a clear blue light which bespoke the power each was supposed to contain, power enough to heal a nation. Or its rulers, which, to the Captain’s mind, was close to the same thing when it came to the Queen, if not necessarily the King. If Finn willed it, there would be enough to heal someone else important. At least important to the Captain.

With a sigh of resolution, he stopped his daydreaming. It was his job to deliver these vials. Staring at them, unprotected, with the case open was not a part of it. He checked the power crystal – his excuse for opening it in the first place. Its aura was strong and there was more than enough power in it to protect the case in a stasis field for the next several years. Captain McCormack snapped the case closed, locked it and handed it to Staff Sergeant Weimez, the Mage-Technician whose job it was to maintain the case.

“Everything looks in order, Staff Sergeant, carry on.”

.

Nathaniel

Corporal Nathaniel Adler woke up underwater, his drowning body dragged down by the robe disguising him as a foreign merchant. 

His Marine training kicked in, overriding the panic. He wriggled out of the coat and waited to see which way the currents pulled him. Once he knew, he propelled himself upwards with broad strokes. Against every instinct, he forced himself to blow out a thin stream of air. Getting the bends at the surface would not help him. His lungs burned. His ears rang.

When he finally emerged at the top of the freshwater sea, he gasped in precious new air and took a few moments to feel relief for being alive, tilting his head against the lapping waves of the surprisingly warm water before assessing his situation.

They’d crashed. In the Balios Sea. In the middle of the night. Fuck.

.

Rinnie

Rinnie’s boots squeaked as she walked down the marble hall of the Edansa Embassy to Schmiedland, the sound overpowering the usual swish of her skirts. Damn. Squeaky shoes were unbecoming of her position. The waterproofing enchantment must’ve worn off after getting caught in one of Himmelmauer’s scheduled rains yesterday. She wasn’t surprised. The boots were old, and all enchantments wore out eventually. She deliberated if it was worth it to re-enchant them, or if she should buy new boots.

She did contemplate the effectiveness of a soundproofing charm for the time being.

She was meeting with the Ambassador today to get her new assignment settled. She knew what she wanted, and she hoped things would work out…

“Doctor Edgewing.” Rinnie knew that voice.

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Riela (from Nathaniel's POV)

Doctor Thiggins had barely turned off the vehicle when a woman wearing a green skirt and white shirt under a brown leather bodice came outside. She was young-looking, with olive skin and brown hair pulled off her face showing sharply pointed ears. She might be older than she looked then, as was typical of those with elven blood.

“Mama said you were coming,” she said, approaching Doctor Thiggins. “Do you need any help?”

“I’ve got help with the patient,” Doctor Thiggins said. “But if you want to grab my bag?”

“Of course,” she said.

She caught sight of Adler and the two of them locked eyes for a second. He couldn’t place the look on her face, but was painfully aware of how disheveled he looked. He smelled, too.

.

Riela (her own POV)

Riela stepped out of the shower and buried her face in a towel before she could look in the mirror. She hated her own reflection first thing in the mornings. She toweled off completely before braving it.

On her right cheek, tracing along her cheekbone to her temple was a garish spidery tattoo with thick lines. It was a brand, really. Nidtrin mages had applied it to her face when she was nine years old. They’d done it in front of her parents before taking her away to be indoctrinated into their religion. She’d escaped a couple years later with a dozen other kids.

The brands made it hard to run. The kids were more obvious, marked as being from non-conforming parents, now obviously runaways. There was witchcraft in the ink, too, whispering to them in their dreams how wrong they were for running.

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Taryn (from Rinnie's POV)

Right as Rinnie was paying her tab, someone crashed into her and a cold wetness seeped into her lap. A glass hit the floor, but it bounced, enchanted not to break.

“Goddess Aenehra, I am so sorry!” the elf woman said in Edan.

Rinnie turned to look at her. She had short brown hair and a heart-shaped face. Her white blouse was crisp but she’d rolled up the sleeves. She looked casually disheveled in her drunkenness. Rinnie reasoned this woman must be in the first century of life. She stood and brushed the ice cubes out of her lap and onto the floor. The other woman steadied herself on the barstool, and looked at Rinnie with an apologetic expression on her face.

“Are you alright?” Rinnie asked, slipping easily into her native language. She wasn’t angry at her—she’d spent many years getting sloshed and making a fool of herself in bars not unlike this one, then waking up the next morning with, unfortunately at times, every memory. She and her cousin had been good at that. If one could be considered “good” at getting wasted.

The woman nodded. “People keep feeding me drinks.” She giggled and turned in the direction of the other sailors in the back corner. “Fuck, shit, Marrik! This is your fault!”

.

Mica

The halls of the ship shook with turbulence again. Mica hissed under her breath and steadied the flame on her small burner. She sat on her bunk in the small room that functioned as a lab and her quarters. She hadn’t slept in the crew quarters since shortly after her initial kidnapping.

She’d been celebrating Schmiedland Day in the town of Trotsberg, near her family’s farm, when it had happened. She’d been complaining about her mother, as usual, with her face neatly shaven, hair in a cute style with two bows in it—one gold and one green, her country’s colors—about how she would never be the perfect dwarven daughter Mother wanted and proceeded to become further inebriated long into the night. The drunker she’d gotten, the more she’d bragged about her alchemy, and the unconventional methods she used, which in hindsight was what’d attracted the pirates to her.

Consequentially, as she was leaving the bar, a cudgel thumped her on the back of the head. When she’d come to, she was forty miles over the Crater Sea heading east, and she couldn’t say with exact certainty that she’d been disappointed.

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Taryn (her own POV)

Taryn Woodlance had been briefed on Doctor Edgewing’s arrogant and reckless nature. This woman was supposedly high-maintenance and troublesome.

Taryn had done her research into the Personnel Protection Order and Rinnie’s files. She was supposed to report on and potentially recruit her to Commodore Crossweave’s top secret project.

Such preparations did nothing to stop the blood from rising to her cheeks when the woman Taryn had spilled a drink on a week prior came to stand in front of her for formal introductions.

“Doctor Edgewing,” Taryn said, finding her voice, nonetheless. “Pleasure to meet you.”

[adultswim2021]

The Young Person’s Guide to History: “The Duel” | April 1, 2008 - 1:00AM | S00E01

The Young Person’s Guide to History was a spin-off of Saul of the Mole Men. Why there should be a spin-off of Saul of the Mole Men is beyond me. Originally the idea was that it was going to be four 11-minute episodes, and in fact it was produced in that format. This is one of those four episodes. When the series turned up later in 2008, they cut the length in half to TWO 11-minute episodes, each episode consisting of what was originally meant to be two episodes, edited down to half the running time. Saul of the Mole Men always came off as over-long, and when I criticized them I usually observed that they could be cut down drastically. I guess when those versions debut, we’ll actually have something to base that theory on (spoilers; I remember it still being bad). 

Okay, so this is the intended series finale of the original four-episode run. At least, one would assume that it is. The plot: it’s 1804 and a bunch of guys are called to a haunted mansion to stay the night. There’s a disembodied voice on a little desktop speaker, like the kind you’d page a secretary with in the later half of the 20th Century. That’s a running thing in the series: very casual use of anachronisms. It’s not super-jokey Mel Brooks style, more like “kids making a movie and not having the resources to replicate the past accurately so they just use a car instead of a carriage” kind of thing. I like that. It’s one of the few things I truly like about this. 

Okay, haunted mansion with guys. They all get killed except Thomas Jefferson who runs out in anguish, as though he were a man possessed while committing this brutal bout of deadly violence. It turns out the house in question is the White House, and Jefferson is now the president. He asks Benjamin Franklin to help him make a vice president, so they create Aaron Burr in a boiling vat, using “science”. Aaron Burr is, uh, neurodivergent. We see a single scene of him doing vice president stuff: being asked about universal healthcare on the senate floor. He makes an imbecilic re-re noise and pees into his own open mouth. The floor cheers. 

Later, while having pizza, Jefferson gets fed up with Burr’s buffoonery and shoots him. He then puts the gun in Burr’s dead hand and uses it to shoot Alexander Hamilton, in order to frame them for each other’s death in a supposed duel, a historical event burned into the minds of a certain generation whose “Got Milk” advertisement got a nation of history buffs rolling in the aisles. Jefferson has transformed into a tyrant, like a guy in a freaking rated-R movie.

Jefferson finally shoots Ben Franklin, but not before cruelly taunting him for his legendary weakness. The voice on the little speaker congratulates Jefferson for being so mean. The voice is in the middle of calling him “Caleb Hilttrop?” or something like that? before being cut off. The significance of this completely eludes me, and I’m not sure if this is set-up in one of the other three episodes that would have aired along with this one, or if I just missed something in the opening sequence. We may never know, because I recall this bit being completely cut out of the version that did air. Jefferson switches the speaker to some rock song and screams “I’m the president!”

I do like that ending, I just wish anything that came before it was compelling enough to call it “earned”. I’d be hard-pressed to come up with much else in this episode that makes it worth watching. This is one of the unfunniest things to air on Adult Swim. It’s barely connected to Saul of the Mole Men, which isn’t a bad thing, honestly. 

There is a scene where Seth Green (who is cut from the shortened version entirely) talks about how he and Jefferson co-authored several sci-fi books about Nathaniel Baltimore’s adventures fighting various sci-fi beasts, and we see a little scene featuring Nathaniel Baltimore shooting a creature that is just them reusing the doctor costume from Saul. This seems to imply that either Saul of the Mole Men is a work of fiction featuring Nathaniel Baltimore in this world, which would explain why there’s no real continuity between this show and Saul. I believe the Jefferson episode of Saul has events in it that would contradict the existence of this series, but I”m not feeling curious enough to even re-read my own write-up to confirm this. I will link to it though, in case you are a sicko who actually is curious. 

Later in the year the truncated version of the show would air. The full-length versions were put up on Adult Swim for a short period of time. The one guy I knew of who knew how to rip from Adult Swim actually had these at one point, but deleted them because he “didn’t think anyone would want them”. Fucker. Again, if anyone knows how to get a hold of those uncut other episodes, please get in touch. 

Oh, I put the whole thing on YouTube, if you want to watch it.

EPHEMERA CORNER

[deva-arts]

🌿🌸Singles Masterpost!🌸🌿

Featuring the not-quite comics with quite as much lore!

Many of these posts have different characters featured in them, so I'll code (most of) them with emotes

Seraphina ⭔ Nathaniel ▭ Vincent △ Sonia ♡ Amon ▣ Ricky ⧖ Strohl ⚡️ Noctis 😈

🪴 Singles: (In a sort-of chronological order!) 🪴

You're Toasty △♡ Titan's ICU Ward ▭ | The Pie ⭔▭ △♡▣😈 | Beef Welly ⭔▭ | OC memes ⭔▭ △♡▣😈 | Young Subjects ⭔△ | Bald Bird Bros ⭔△ | Vincent's Spiel △♡| Sentry Spotted! ⭔| Needed Hug ▣ | Enter Ricky ⭔⧖ | In-Law Bonding ▭ △| Vincent buys pads. △♡| Vincent buys an Apology △♡| Amon and Adra ▣ | Labrat Headpats △♡| Sera's "Expressions" ⭔

| Day and Night ⭔ | Labrat times △| Shut up, Eric. ⧖| Post-Kiss Bliss ⭔▭| Scared Boy △ | Favorite food? ⭔▭△♡▣ | Sleepy Gang ⭔△▣ | Work Interruption ⭔▭ | Enter Strohl ⚡️| Snowy Vincent △ | Enter Titan 👹| True Face ▭ | Cuddly Ser ⭔▭ | Valentines 💌 ⭔▭| Lovers' Spat ⭔▭| Sera Loves me <3 ⭔ | He fears Nothing △|

| Lamb for Slaughter △ | Trust issues ⭔▭| Kisskisskisskiss ⭔▭| Living Room | Enter Hayes ⭔ | Vincent Timeline △| Excitement! △| Harpy Suit ⭔ | Doctor Wilson! ▭| Doctor... Wilson? ▭ | Vincenza's Secret △| Vincent's last Name? △♡ | Bird Smell? △♡ | Nate≠Handwriting? ⭔▭ | Fry me?⚡️ | How Variants? ▭ | Eggs Bad? ⭔▭△♡▣ |

Your Nightmare 😈 | Check Up ⭔▭ △| Cat Got! ⭔⧖| Beards. ▭△▣⧖| Beards 2 △▣| Young Nox ▭ | Too Green Too Blue ⭔▭| Doomed Siblings ⭔△| Edgy Ahh Painting △ | Chokeslams aren't fun ⭔| Sera's Cooking ⭔| Sleeby Nate ▭| Mom's Approval | Mom's Approval 2 ⭔▭| The Man in Red 😈

| Scar Map △ | Cake Face △ | Her Friend ⭔▭ | Amon <3 ▣ | What Could've Been ⭔△| Animatic ⭔▭△♡▣ | Baby Pantomath ▭ | Slap on the Wrist ▭ | Half n' Half! ▭ 😈| Don't Sign. | Range of Vision ▭ |

Uncle Vincent △| Snorefest ▭♡▣ | Pantsuit <3 ♡| Parenthood ⭔▭ | Sonia's Bag △♡| Noxes ▭ | Pain Scale ▭△ | Kisses ⭔▭ | Hoemio and Juliet △♡ | In another Castle △♡| Bleached △ | Cool Asf △ | Misunderstandings ♡▣ | Monster ▭ | Beach Bro ▣ | Doomed (human) siblings ⭔△ | Quick Smoke △ | Shocking Rejection ♡⚡️ | Nate in Theory ▭| Not A Psycho △♡|

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theory abt stuff based on my second quantumania watch under the cut

okay, so, with this being my second time watching, i was able to focus on stuff i couldn't before. and one of those things was the interaction between cassie and kang while cassie's in the holding cell

there's something in the way he looks at her, when he turns his full attention to her, and talks about not experiencing time in a straight line. it kinda made me think of the doctor and river song, and i started to wonder: what if this kang has already met cassie, but cassie hasn't met nate (aka kang) yet?

it is also odd that he didn't seem to plan on actually killing her in the end--not until she actively got in his way and fought against him. and even when he did order modok to kill her, there was almost a hint of hesitation. now, i could have interpreted that wrong, but still. he didn't seem to plan on killing her after getting the power source back. no, instead, he was going to take her with him. almost like he didn't want to give her back. "she'll be fine without you," he said. this doesn't seem to suggest that he was going to kill her after that.

so what does that mean? i think, in a future movie or series, we're going to get nathaniel richards, aka young kang, showing up in the present time. i think he's going to help bring the young avengers together, maybe without cassie knowing that he's kang. after all, it's not insignificant that they had cassie and kang in a movie together--especially with cassie and nate's history in the comics. in fact, children's crusade almost seemed to hint that cassie's death is what finally set THAT nate on the path to becoming kang. cassie and nate liked each other a whole lot, and there's a lot of potential for interesting angst there in the movies

okay rant over kalsjdflkaj

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(—) ★ spotted!! NATHANIEL PARK on the cover of this week’s most recent tabloid! many say that the THIRTY FOUR year old looks like CHARLES MELTON, but i don’t really see it. while the SINGER/SONGWRITTER is known for being PASSIONATE my inside sources say that they have a tendency to be FICKLE i swear, every time i think of them, i hear the song NEW LIGHT by JOHN MAYER {he + him / cis male}

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name: nathaniel park

age: thirty four

nicknames: nate

date of birth: march 2nd, 1991

astrological sign: pisces

place of birth: bridgeport, connecticut

occupation: singer/songwriter

label: the manipulator

positive traits: passionate, artsy, suave, persuasive

negative traits: fickle, manipulative, cold, fake deep

characters/celebrities he's like: john mayer, klaus mikaelson from tvd, chris keller from oth, leonardo dicaprio, mr. big from sex and the city

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being the mayor's son wasn't what everyone thought it would be. trained from the time he and his siblings were young, they were meant to stand in line, wave and smile and make the family look good.

growing up with a bunch of siblings, nate jammed somewhere in the middle of the six sibling lineup, he was painfully shy, preferred to observe and take in everything that was going on around him and quickly learned that no one actually knew what they were talking about, they pretended. and in order to get what you wanted in this world, you had to pretend.

puberty hit him like a truck and once he shot up some inches and his face became more chiseled, he started getting looks that he hadn't gotten before. but he wasn't a popular jock - he found sports to be a waste of time, and he didn't have anything impressive about him so, that's when he picked up the guitar.

taking lessons after school, he played until his fingers bled and after a few months of hard work and dedication, he sang a jeff buckley cover of 'lover, you should come over' at his school's talent show his junior year of high school and overnight, he became the school's biggest heartthrob.

with how much attention he was getting, he merely couldn't limit himself to just one person, so he basically had a different girlfriend every week. guys started wanting to be his friend because, well, he was who all the girls hung around, but unlike those guys, he knew how to say every pretty thing they wanted to hear to get them hooked.

he became rather popular his last two years of high school, throwing parties at the family's home while they were away and getting into a bit of trouble here and there, solidifying himself as the black sheep of his very successful family.

while the rest of his siblings went off to college to become lawyers or doctors, nathaniel stuck behind in bridgeport, getting an apartment with a few of his buddies and working in a coffee shop during the day, performing at open mic nights at night. he was the disappointment of his family, but little did they know that he was going to become the most successful of all.

when he was twenty years old, a music producer from hollywood found themselves in the bar he was playing in and that night, he just so happened to be playing some originals.

after his set, they got to talking and he offered him a job as a songwriter for his label on the spot and nathaniel immediately packed his bags, left bridgeport behind and moved to hollywood.

for the first 10 years of his career, he worked as a songwriter for the label - helping artists write some of the biggest hits on the radio, racking in the money from royalties and winning awards across the industry.

his naturally shy persona enjoyed it for a while, being the man with the pen behind the scenes, but after doing that for a decade, he started to crave the attention he had gotten back in bridgeport when he was the one on the stage.

so, he quit his job and sought out a career of his own - writing songs about all the women who've had the unfortunate pleasure of crossing his path, romanticizing their stories but never exactly coming right out and saying who inspired the song.

he blew up almost immediately, his first album 'room for squares' going viral, and the song 'your body is a wonderland' winning him his very first grammy award.

his second album 'heavier things' wasn't met with as much success, but he's about to release his third and he thinks it's going to be his best one yet.

since entering hollywood, he's become notorious for his personal life - spotted almost every other month with a different starlet on his arm, traveling the world with them, wining and dining them. and just when people think they're getting serious, he's onto the next one.

he's extremely fickle and only keeps women around when they inspire some kind of writing out of him. and once they stop giving him inspiration? he moves on and finds it elsewhere.