#Long Live the Legion

[jasposeyblog]

My acquisition of Saturn Girl sketch card by @calslayton

[lesterspiffany]

[supergirltastic]

‘he took me out of that dark laboratory… showed me the sun’ is some of the gayest shit dc has ever put on page.

[sarkos]

@iaiamothrafhtagn I hunger to hear your opinions on the Legion, but I also don't want to turn you into a Treselgonian Dementialist or force you to unleash Omega to walk the stars

step 1: read comics step 2: develop opinions that make you generally incomprehensible to everyone else

[deoidesign]

please please please please please please please let me tell you about this comic I want to make it so bad please I can not wait I am losing it

If I don't make the comic then I'm not going to make it... I need other people to see what is in my brain so I'm not the only one going feral over them

[millimononym]

I love that in the og LOSH comics everyones powers are treated equally and seriously. Genuinely. Like this is superman he has every ability ever. Here's lightning lad who has lightning powers. Here's brainiac 5 who has superintellect. Here's matter eater lad who just eats shit

[druidonity2]

If Shalamayne were a Legion artifact weapon...

[supergirltastic]

my notes:

quorb (querl orb) is funny and I won’t hear a word against him.

bald (tomorrowverse) is better than bald (dcau adjacent movie) because he’s actually the best on screen adaptation of brainy.

I have extreme vitriol for anything YJTV so noseless boy is lucky he gets to stay in ew.

bendisboot can actually look nice when other artists draw him but also I hate him so he goes in misery.

putting cw in die was very tempting but I think he’s just caused me to be miserable more than anything else.

Hey team new ugly Brainy just dropped:

[stoat-party]

Fallout fans do not believe there’s a single building in the entire state of Arizona

[lemonyinks]

I didn't like Mekt much but I do hate seeing him only utilized as a villain, as if Legion Worlds didn't happen.

Where is the Mekt who admitted that he was wrong to let his loneliness and jealousy dictate how he acted? Where is the Mekt that worked to be better? Where is the Mekt who welcomed Ayla home and put himself in harms way to help her save their parents farm? Where is the Mekt that delighted at the idea of seeing Garth again and was sad to hear he wasn't really coming back?

I don't know. Maybe it's just me but Mekt works so much better as a character of redemption and reconciliation than as one who stays bitter and antagonistic. He's more interesting that way

[jasposeyblog]

Well a very excited and much appreciated thank you for my gift commission of Cosmic Boy vs Lightning Lord and Validus sketch cover by Dave Beaty

The concept behind this one was if the Earth’s magnetic field can prevent the passage of many particles of cosmic or gamma radiation, could Cosmic Boy tap the Earth’s magnetic field and deflect lightning blasts? Much like a magic user can tap a ley line for a power boost, maybe Rokk can do the same from the Earth’s magnetic core. Gamma and cosmic rays travel at highly charged and incredible speeds through the cosmos and some, but not all, are defected by the Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetic field can also deflect the solar wind from our Sun preventing our atmosphere from being stripping away. But lightning can be hotter than the surface of the Sun. The energy from a lightning burst is super-heated and destructive.

So two electrical types…I choose you COSMIC BOY! Can he fit in a Poké Ball?

[supergirltastic]

anyone who voted Brainy is dead to me

[i-am-become-a-name]

ARGH BRAX AND THE END OF ENEMY LINES-

[carnelianwings]

I can’t believe it took me this long to realize the Blaster Blade Aichi Rides in the Get Back Yourself ED sequence is Blaster Blade Seeker, not Blaster Blade. Why is this relevant?

I submit, Kai’s Ride chant for Blaster Blade Seeker : “Stand up, my avatar! The true friend within my soul... my mate! Ride the Vanguard! Blaster Blade Seeker!”

Also, Kai’s Legion chant for Thing Saver Dragon, the same one he calls “Soulmate Legion”, and describes as “the bond between [himself] and Aichi” in ep 169 where he first meets Gaillard: “The light of courage that connects me and my mate in the darkness! Seek the mate! Friendship is in this hand! Our bond is in this heart! Line up, avatar of my soul. Legion!”

My only excuse is that every time I watch Legion Mate I’m scraping my jaw off the floor because “how on Earth (and Cray) did they ever green light a season that’s just made of There’s No Heterosexual Explanation For This Whatsoever”.

And I thought it was obvious enough with Aichi’s little proposal speech at the end of Link Joker 😅

[millimononym]

im sorry but i cant like brainiac5 designs that take away his blonde hair. His awful blonde hair is an intrinsic part of his design hes naked without it

[heirbane]

Citizens of Garlemald reached adulthood when they first showed signs of puberty, or upon their acceptance into the military, whichever came sooner. They believed that if one was able to serve their country, they deserved the rights and responsibilities of adults.

If a child could choose to wield a weapon, they were old enough to dictate their own fates.

Gaius was barely thirteen when he enrolled into the military. His voice had yet to crack and he had nary a hair on his face to speak for his newfound "adulthood". He, like many and more to come, looked up to those who were well and truly adults, being whisked under their wings to be mentored into being a man and a soldier.

In a society where men and women spent more time in barracks and not in a cot in their family's home, it was common - and nearly required - for children in the military to be fostered and cared for by an older soldier. They would be raised and cared for, taught how to be a man and a machine, and then they would retire. The military relied on its recruits upholding the status quo in this manner.

Gaius was taught how to shave. He was taught how to tie a tie, and how to behave around girls his own age. And he was taught one very important thing by his mentor, a man who was born decades before the empire had even begun:

One did not sleep with their charge.

It was not a factor of age or experience, but of status. A Legatus shouldn't sleep with the boy he trained as a son. A Tribanus shouldn't keep a bed with the same woman they had taught how to kill. Garlemald and it's military held status among men in high regard. Men were to teach the boys of today, so that they could teach the boys of tomorrow, a fine and delicate act of commanding and listening.

But there was a line in the snow. Not all listened, nor heeded the advice, but it was one Gaius held true all the same. The boys he taught respect to were not ones he would share a bedroll with. His recruits were not his bedfellows, and he treated them much the same as he would his own children in due time.

Gaius, no matter how pressed, never slept with Livia. The girl was a daughter and not one he shared sheets with. Children oft had crushes and obsessions with adults they held in high regard, and Livia was no different... except that she struggled to outgrow her fixation. His love for her, as a brother to a baby sister, as a mentor to a mentee, was not enough for her.

He shared no bed with those in his Legion. He shared no bed with those he raised from childhood. And he shared no bed with those too young to choose their own fates... an age that is summers beyond what his fatherland decrees.

Men and women of different station and legions were more than welcome. They had not been his to care for or command: he had not seen them rise from prepubescent boys and girls into soldiers. Their status mattered not, nor their race.

Gaius rarely spent time in his own home in Garlemald, and he was not one to have the bed to himself and his thoughts. A good meal and a better fuck served to rid him of his night terrors and contemplations, if only for one evening... and if the Legati or Tribanus of the soldiers he bedded took offense to his acts, few had it in them to speak it into existence.

(He was a child killer, after all, the bane of those who dared seek the throne. If he could slaughter babes and women alike, who would dare speak against him?)