#R09

[shine-on-fest]

the tiger's tail ✦ by demedicis The looking glass Chanyeol holds is broken, shattered into a million pieces. The only reflection that stares back at him is warped, with eyes that transmit hunger for his ruin.

Yet, if Chanyeol tilts the broken mirror, nicks his fingers and draws his own blood, there is adoration there too: he just has to look harder. On the run from the Red Force, Chanyeol dreams of being free. How far can he climb, and how hard can he fall, to make this dream come true?

✧ Chanyeol/Suhø ✧ M • 19k ✧ Obsession AU, Clones, MAMA Powers, Enemies to Lovers, Kinda Morally Ambiguous Character, the clones are dicks suho included, Explicit Sexual Content, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Manipulation, Minor Violence, Blood and Injury

[batbabydamian]

an attempt at brotherly bonding

[ultralowoxygen]

Trädgårdsföreningen by Johan Via Flickr: Holga 135bc, Potsdam 100, developed for 8 minutes, R09 1:40, fixed for 5 minutes.

[leeeham]

Rebun Island / Rebun-tō / 礼文島, Hokkaido, Japan, June 2023.

Hanimex Micro Flash 35, Ilford HP5+, Rodinal R09.

[zahri-melitor]

Rebirth is going okay but I’m pretty busy between uni and work right now so I’ve switched over to reading more Matt Wagner stuff and. uh. hmm.

The man is interested in the grotesque and the internal-external expression of horror. Which 100% translates to what he's worked on over the years: Batman stories about the Monster Men, about Two-Face, about Riddler. Sandman Mystery Theatre. The Demon. Madame Xanadu. Doctor Mid-Nite. House of Mystery.

(Honestly amazed he got to write a Trinity story, but the contents of that story now make more sense to me in context).

But reading it can be a bit, well, this comic story, Faces, was written in 1992, wasn’t it? (LOTDK #28-30).

It's not that it's badly told, but the themes of body horror surrounding Two-Face and that very late 80s/early 90s ugly art style aesthetic (the wider cartooning style one, not the Liefeld/Image one) are a lot to take in and it's somewhat callous in how it portrays the humanity of the Monster (TM).

I really, really disbelieve that, Wagner. My understanding is that they largely died out around the 1950s or so, and your story here is more reacting to the early 1990s revival scene and the discussion surrounding the future of circus at that time in terms of the decrease in animal acts, the increase in physical feats and the ethics of it all.

It's interesting. But the approach to the interrogation of the topic is going to catch modern readers off guard.

[whiterose-bluespace]

That, I believe for those who want to know, is Ark Royal, specifically Ark Royal R09 of the Audacious class judging from the radar arrays and bridge extension.

[planesawesome]

An EA-18G Growler lands on the deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), with HMS Prince of Wales (R09) visible in the background.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm FG.1 Phantoms of No. 892 Naval Air Squadron back on board the carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) after a visit to a NAS Oceana where they worked up with USS Saratoga.

The Royal Navy roundels had been “zapped” and replaced with interwar American Navy “meatball” insignia, and on XV590 001/R, the “Royal Navy” flash had been replaced with one for the “Colonial Navy.”

[usafphantom2]

A U.S. Navy F-4J Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-33 Tarsiers at the end of Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal´s (R09) waist catapult. 1975.

@perpetuaosombro via X

[judgemark45]

An aerial view of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) tied up at piers at Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia (USA), The photo may have been taken in 1975 USN Image.Nara

[shine-on-fest]

if i am the king of sinners, i am the king of sufferers also ✦ by likedeadends Feeling threatened by EXO, the clones enact a plan to get behind enemy lines and figure out exactly what it is that's making EXO so strong. Suhø would've been okay with any clone going, except for Chanyeøl. But no matter what Suhø thinks, the world isn't always beholden to his desires.

Chanyeøl finds himself in charge of the mission. He might not learn what makes EXO strong, but he learns what makes the Red Force weak.

✧ Chanyeøl/Junmyeon ✧ M • 34k ✧ Clones, Trauma, Abuse, Emotional Manipulation, Identity Swap, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Kidnapping, Hopeful Ending, guilty makeouts, bed sharing, Blood and Injury, Panic Attacks, Polyamory

[batbabydamian]

reverse robins of my fav trio!

[lactating]

You look out over the city and see the wizard in the interplay between a curl of smoke and a beleaguered sidewalk tree. You see her in between the leaves on those trees, each perfectly spaced and centered to capture the maximum amount of hazy sunlight. You see her in the choices of colors for building advertisements and storefronts, R09's and G08's selected specifically to wiggle their way past your discerning mind and into something more basic. Red for urgency, green for comfort, sure, but more than that - the specific knowledge of colors' intersection with sight and our animal selves, that right there is where the wizard is. BT: "I am madly in love with you." it says, eyes locked into yours. BT: "I'll see you in every drop of sunlight and in every crack in the firmament." it smiles, warmly. NG: you spoil me i hear you in every pigeons hasty flight in finches resting in city trees in dawn breaking every night NG: until we meet again! BT: "We're never apart." it closes

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[innsyn]

Powerclash Update

I've been blown away by all the lovely writeblr's keen to get involved with my big dumb idea in the last few days. People have started picking teams and adopting characters, so I thought it was worth a quick update on who's-who and where we're at.

Reminder: the Powerclash project is open to all, you don't have to wait for an invite. 15 / 125 characters claimed

RED TEAM R09 - Charm - Claimed by @quantumlandbooks R18 - Essence - Claimed by @qrjung

YELLOW TEAM Y05 - Glam - Claimed by @eli-writes-sometimes Y07 - Dipper - Claimed by @tea-and-mercury Y14 - Screech - Claimed by @kooperation1101 Y16 - Ringo - Claimed by @whole-buncha-snakess Y17 - Origami - Claimed by @scribblesfromanobscurepoet Y18 - Fog - Claimed by @leisoree Y24 - Mnemon - Claimed by @innsyn Y24 - Jacker - Claimed by @innsyn

BLUE TEAM B01 - Dyer - Claimed by @innsyn B04 - Newise AND/OR B20 - Withcraft - Considered by @irlactualwizard

GREEN TEAM G01 - Root - Claimed by @softandwigglybones G09 - Good Chef - Claimed by @sergeantnarwhalwrites G24 - Whisptalker - Claimed by @kambri24 Undecided - @lividdreamz

WHITE TEAM W22 - Frenzy - Claimed by @nev-058 Undecided - @yesireadbooks Undecided - @holdmyteaplease

NO TEAM YET (but have chatted) Still shopping -

If you've not already joined the Discord, please do. (Discord link is currently under 'Forum' on the site)

Expressed interest but haven’t yet picked a team or had a follow-up chat:

@caxycreations @theblackbookofarkera @cinnamongum8 @kinnyintheflesh @blind-the-winds @saltedwizard @thetruearchmagos @ladywithalamp @manuscriptsatmidnight

[leeeham]

Queenstown, Tasmania, July 2023. Arca-Swiss 4x5, Kodak TXP320, Rodinal R09.

[zahri-melitor]

Thinking again about the whole "Dick told Damian he would have adopted him" scenario and remembering how ridiculous this is:-

Firstly, Bruce would have had to be dead. Since Bruce became aware of Damian, Bruce has always been a fit parent in the eyes of the law; there's no evidence of any situations that would lead to Damian being removed from Bruce's custody, and in terms of what a social worker would care about, the worst that's going on is...Damian runs away on occasion, plus your standard set of vigilante bruises.

For Bruce not to have at least partial parental responsibility for Damian, some of the following elements would need to be in place: Damian has a birth certificate without Bruce's name on it; nobody has provided a DNA test showing that Bruce is Damian's father; someone has legal paperwork stating that Damian has two different, legal parents; Bruce has permanently relinquished custody of Damian; a parenting order has been made that says Bruce doesn't get custody or parental responsibility (whether by agreement or by court order). Aside from the fact we don't know what's on Damian's birth certificate, none of this is the case.

Damian is clearly in Bruce's custody, legally, from about Battle for the Cowl onwards, and has had visits to the household prior. This is because, as far as the public and the legal system is concerned, Tommy Elliot is currently 'Bruce Wayne' for any public appearances. Now you could have a (fun!) scenario where Damian needs a DNA test to prove his identity and since Tommy obviously would not match, the courts find Damian is not Bruce's biological child...but given Dick is literally also building his own forensic testing lab as part of Wayne Enterprises at that time, they'd obviously do it in house and use a sample Bruce had on file.

Bruce provides care, support, housing, paid supervision (Alfred), and so on for Damian whenever Damian is in his custody or in a Wayne household.

Damian also specifically chooses during B&R09 that he wants to be in Wayne custody not in Talia's (after his back surgery) and everyone involved actually works to make that happen, including Talia (and preference of the child is something that's taken into account in terms of parenting orders).

And in any circumstance where Bruce is not considered to be a fit parent for Damian (due to, for instance, being dead), then Talia is still Damian's biological mother and the person who had parental responsibility and custody of Damian up until the age of 10. You'd need to prove that Damian should not be in Talia's custody and that the circumstances were such that she couldn't even have, say, supervised visits. Now whatever the DCU position on international assassins having custody of their children is, Talia, unlike Jade Nguyen, has never been charged or convicted of killing people, to my knowledge. She doesn't have a known criminal record.

To show Talia to be someone whose rights as a parent have been removed, you'd need something of the following: Talia would need to agree to give up all parental responsibility (which she has never done, see how often Talia drops in to 'sort things out' for Damian); Talia would need to be found by a court not to be a suitable parent for her child; Talia gets imprisoned for killing people and thus couldn't have custody of her kid; Damian has paperwork that says Talia isn't her mother/we have DNA evidence showing she isn't his mother.

For Dick to have any chance of adopting Damian, they would have needed for both Bruce and Talia to be legally dead, have had their parental rights removed, or have voluntarily relinquished their parental responsibility, to permit the adoption to occur.

This isn't a small thing. Bruce might have been 'dead' during that period but he was also legally alive in the eyes of the law. Talia has a legal existence in the US under her identity as Talia Head. For Damian to get adopted, he'd need both of them to sign that Dick could adopt him, or be in the custody of the State and have the State agree for Dick to adopt him.

There are scenarios where you could get to that point, particularly if Bruce had remained dead. But in the stories we have? As much as Dick thinks it might have been a nice thing to do, he absolutely could not have done it without a protracted legal fight (or agreement of both Bruce and Talia) and he'd probably lose that fight.