#Janus Directive

[splooosh]

Okay

Gil Kane

[nerds-yearbook]

The Force of July (Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Lady Liberty, Majory Victory, Mayflower, Silent Majority, and Sparkler) got in a lethal battle with Task Force X (The Suicide Squad) in Suicide Squad 27# (cover date May, 1989). The conflict saw the murder of Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Mayflower, and Sparkler. ("The Janus Directive 2: Scattermove", Suicide Squad 27#, Comic, Event)

[emoprincey]

WHY WOULD HE TAUNT US LIKE THIS

[pattons-second-cookie-v2]

“Not ALL Slytherin are inherently evil”- C!Thomas, “Fitting In”

I shout this to Roman as he continuously calls Janus evil

[emiliasilverova]

Martin Campbell directing Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan on the set of GoldenEye (from "Directing GoldenEye—The Martin Chronicles" in the GoldenEye Special Edition/blu ray bonuses).

In the last gif, what Martin is telling Sean is: "you know, it's all in there, but what has taken over now, is you're gonna get your revenge. And you are now in a position to get back, and right all those wrongs."

[martyrbat]

habeas corpus – detective comics #1086

(ID in alt!)

[waters-and-the-wilde]

okay speaking of wrestling and also apropos of 'Rita drags him in by his tie', I was previously having Thoughts about imminently post Got His Ass wherein Rita is bound and determined to drag Nureyev kicking and screaming back into being family again so uh. scenario.

Rita corners Nureyev for A Conversation after they Get His Ass, like plot resolution denouement loose ends and stuff where he's in the clear debt-wise, made his peace with Slip however that looks, he and Juno Have Talked but they're like just on the other side of Having Talked. like Things Are Okay but also everything's just so raw and they're being So Careful with each other, it's like the early days on the Carte Blanche again and it's hard to shake the feeling that any more disturbance is going to topple whatever they're trying to rebuild

so Nureyev is just. his whole brain is full of fire alarms. he's vibrating in place like a greyhound that just got picked up at the shelter after it got spooked and ran away from home. this time he has no high ground as the injured party, he and Rita have known each other for a year now so there's a lot less of her initial 'sniff out the new beau' hesitancy, and sure he knows Rita well enough that it's obvious she's not gonna up and Ruin Him on purpose when she wholeheartedly volunteered to get him out of the mess he was in but still. she's the most unpredictable person he's ever met, he has no idea how this is going to go.

like logically he knows that he and Juno are working shit out and logically he knows that Rita's kinder than the people in her life deserve and might continue to tolerate him, but ultimately she's Juno's best friend who might well just be about to give him the mother of all 'you're on thin fucking ice' shovel talks, like she can't possibly still approve of him anymore right??

so he's scrambling to do preemptive damage control, he's throwing everything he's got into trying to Fix This. going on about how he knows what she must think of him and how sorry he is and that all he has to say for himself is that he only wanted to keep Juno safe, that he couldn't bear the thought of dragging him down with him, not when he was free and their family was together and he knows he should have ended it when Juno asked him to and he just wasn't strong enough and Rita's like. yeah that's nice i know Mista' Nureyev, hey can I tell you what I said to Mista' Steel when he told me about leaving you in that hotel?

and Nureyev shuts up and braces himself and nods very seriously and then she's like, actually you might wanna take off your glasses for this, and now he's extra confused and possibly even more terrified, and she waits until he's put them in a little case and set it on a side table and then there's just kind of a blur and a whole Rita NYEEERRRRRRAAaGGHHH!!!! noise and WHOOMP

pillow to the face

(for context. in my brain. I sorta presume that Juno told her about what happened with Miasma at some point in the aftermath of Newtown bc he owed her an explanation about both times he went missing, and yes she was glad that Juno didn't run away on an adventure across the galaxy without her but she knows a dick move when she sees one and also probably has the full context of baby Mista' Steel's self-sabotaging romantic choices (Juno said there was a whole thing about him walking out when he was with Diamond so I am assuming that Rita was privy to any number of related incidents over the course of those years). finding out that he passed up the chance to run away on a romantic adventure with the mysterious and dashing gentleman who he'd been mooning over for month, who was apparently also smitten with him the whole time and saved his life and tried to take care of him when he lost his eye?? she waited until he was staring into the bottom of his glass and then started whaling on him with a pillow)

anyway Nureyev doesn't get a chance to do much except yelp and sputter and get his arms up before she whacks him with the pillow again. and again. and starts yelling like 'YOu! are! such! a! big! dumb! baBY! Just! 'Cause! YOU! Think! People're better off! Without you! Don't make you! All! Noble 'n stuff!'

and he gets with the program pretty fast, which is to say that he's just on the floor letting her do her worst because that's just what's happening now

'alright I yield! I surrender! have mercy your honor!'

'DAMN! RIGHT! YOU! DO! DidN'T! Captain! Mom! Teach! you! aNYThInG! Big! Stupid! Tough guy! Tryin'a! Do it all! Yourself! We're! S'posed to be! FaMBLY! Now you're! Stuck with us! FoReVeR!!'

tackles him with the pillow. starts tickling him. both of them are shrieking. he vaguely registers that Juno has appeared and is slouching in the doorway 'my love i beg of you call off the attack i'll do anything' and Juno's like 'sorry honey i'm a little busy' and is holding up something that is probably comms-shaped and 'Nooooo, Juno how could you, JUNO SINCE WHEN DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECORD THINGS'

(and the thing is Nureyev was just letting it happen because he assumed this was catharsis for Rita's sake and sure it's not not for Rita getting it out of her system but she processes things pretty fast you know? and she runs out of steam and goes off to get a snack and he's just there on the floor with his hair in his face kinda punch-drunk and Juno sidles up and sits beside him and whoops turns out Rita found the Release Feelings Valve and Juno's like 'yeah she does that. went a lot easier on me but I think that was mostly because I'd just gotten out of the hospital when i told her about all that.')

(a couple months later Ruby turns up to scoop Jet in the nick of time from a dangerous raid on Dark Matters and he asks what it's been up to and it pulls up the footage that Juno copied to the databanks. he gets a good kick out of the fact that Rita was on the same page about the whole 'he is solitary and overconfident and alone he can only fail' thing and that she got the opportunity to address it in the most rita way possible)

[loafaethernaut]

Historians called them best friends

[t4t-apexeclipse]

moceit prompt:

patton wants to do something with janus (some kind of activity) but janus isn’t able to participate for whatever reason. patton says “thats okay! we can do something else instead!” and janus is in a state of shock that someone would ever do that for him

[fancyfade]

I'm not very far in it so far, but I am wondering what event leviathan brings to the table that the Janus directive didn't, except Janus directive was by someone who can write

[o5-10]

I will share my amusement at one very public thing in recent times. This doesn't involve my Insurgency, specifically, but rather the tragic double who thinks it can ruin my life if it tries hard enough. The list of shortcomings and idiotic decisions is unending, but I want to focus on one, specifically. One thing that it has done completely of its own volition without any interference.

One of the many things it has tried to do is to posture itself as a source for information one could use against me. What anyone else has or will choose to do with that notwithstanding, I have never in my life seen someone manage to completely undermine their own credibility as a source of any reliable information on any subject with this degree of totality and be left with absolutely nothing to show for it.

It's probably not something anyone else has thought to consider at all, there are far more pressing matters than some tapeworm of a human deciding to discredit itself in this way, but it has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that, not only do we have nothing in common in the present, but we never did. It's consistently displayed a complete willful lack of any kind of discipline it would be expected to have. It also consistently shows itself to be a tragic bleeding heart toward everyone, no matter how stupid it is to do that. For all its bluster and smoke and mirrors tactics, it cares to such a baffling degree I could never begin to approach. You cannot convince me it wasn't always this to pathetic bleeding heart with an almost willful inability to keep that in check. I very clearly do not have either affliction.

I cannot fathom where anything it does could possibly fit in its big plan scale. If it were ever anything like me, it would have one, it would try to hide it, but it would have one. If we were ever alike, I would be able to figure out what that plan is, to some extent.

This isn't the most pathetic thing it's done, it doesn't even make the top ten, but it is the most bewildering display of willful incompetence I have ever seen.

On my list of failures of my own Insurgency, there are some entries about mishandling of negotiations. I dread to think how much worse those things must go if that sadsack has any involvement whatsoever.

[splooosh]

Major FORCE

Karl Kesel

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Ok also you know i said alot of things about Isekai!Peacemaker but undoubtedly the most 80s Peacemaker traits he has are ambiguously having super strength and perhaps some super intelligence shit going on but it just never comes up

[emoprincey]

Sorry, we gave your boyfriend a redemption arc. Yeah, he works with us rather than against us now. He told us his name and he's invited to our movie night, we're going to wear onesies and watch Frozen

[januscorner]

In best song ever they’re listening to Miss Holloway send tweet

[essektheylyss]

Would I be a calmer person if I was willing to dnf a book? Undoubtedly. But then I wouldn't get to deconstruct exactly what I don't like about the book for my own learning process, and I would lose out on some prime kvetching, so I think it levels out.