#everyone's posts have been awesome

[arda-ancalima]

Summary: It’s the journey home to Japan, and Susato is avoiding Professor Mikotoba. Ryunosuke hopes he can help his friend begin her journey to restoration.

For Greatest Family Week 2023, July 30th: Future @greatestfamilyweek

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For Ryunosuke, the voyage back to Japan was nearly as busy as the journey to Britain, though it held the peace of new purpose. Sorrow was replaced by the sweet pain of parting, and instead of frantically learning British law, he was now coached by Susato in Japanese law and procedure. Many hours were spent discussing how to get Ryunosuke certified and how they would run their new law office, often drifting into amusing stories from the six months they were apart. When Ryunosuke realized he would have to take the bar exam, he almost gave up on law there and then. Susato assured him she would help him study, but he protested that this was not reassuring at all—he remembered Kazuma’s stress and grueling study plan and now he knew just who devised that plan.

Like before, they met in his cabin to study. Susato turned down repeated offers from him and her father to give her one of their first class cabins, insisting she had no need of all that space except when they worked together.

Another change to their previous routine was the addition of Professor Mikotoba, who sometimes stopped by and offered his input. Ryunosuke expected to see less of Susato when she had her father to visit with as well, but it hadn’t yet been the case.

One morning they had only just poured their tea when Mikotoba popped in and Ryunosuke invited him to join them.

Susato stood. “Ah! I almost forgot! My friend in the cabin next to mine needed help with her baby today. My apologies, Naruhodo-san. Father, take my cup, I haven’t touched it.”

“Oh! Well, all right,” Mikotoba said, taken aback as Susato hurried past him out the door. He hesitantly took her chair and fingered the cup of tea. “Sorry for disrupting your work, Naruhodo. I didn’t intend to chase her away.”

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[zorangezest]

(switcherooau) your new everything :)

im retreating into my cave to work on some big ol oc projects now—have this while I’m gonee

[oceanwithouthermoon]

saikis powers are a vital part of him so it makes sense that people who dont know about them cant truly understand his whole self, but its also very silly to me when people act like its the ONLY important part of him... people act like his friends that arent in the know are completely blind to who saiki is, but i feel like that kinda means you missed some major points... he cant keep his powers a secret forever and it DOES matter, but he can still be loved and KNOWN without knowing about them... hes still human, he still has a personality, he still has regular likes and dislikes, etcetc

his friends perspectives on him may have been wrong at first, but they CHANGED... they know him and love him, and theyll KEEP loving him the SAME once they know of his powers...

​some people cough cough cough in this fandom like to reduce saiki to JUST his powers and its so obvious that you just. missed everything. you didnt absorb anything from the show, you just saw it and went "ha, everyone thinks hes just a guy when hes actually super cool and powerful" no no no, he IS cool and powerful but look a little closer and at his core he is still LITERALLY JUST A GUY 😭😭😭

hes such a guy.....

[silvers-starrway]

So the wildest thing happened where @mactheactor decided to dub over (if that's even the correct terminology) the Chaos Sonic animation I made!!!!

I'm still in utter awe about this like, hands down the coolest thing ever I've been thinking about this non-stop. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as I do!!

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Dub shout-out to the one comic that will be haunting me to the rest of my days most likely

[tubbytarchia]

just fyi, theres been more trafficshipping discourse on twitter, and since some people already dont like u on there, might be worth avoiding maintagging ur shipping for a bit.

I mean it's not like they'll like me any less than they already do after harassing and condemning me to death lol. I hope my ship art scares and induces gag reflexes in any twitter people who thought for even a second that they're welcome on or strong enough for tumblr. I hope they seethe and I hope they think about me as they go to bed. I hope the image of yaoi haunts them in their sleep. I hope they're infruriated that a 1h smallidarity compilation exists. Also when isn't there delusional and alienating mcyt discourse on twitter

[monstermoviedean]

if you have a good vibe/kind thought to spare and could send it my way. i'd really appreciate it.

[spacetrashpile]

so everything i know abt dc (very little) has come from my mutuals' posts (mostly yours) and i wanted to say congrats on your special guy's return!!! but also i had a few questions! kid eternity's previous iterations were all boys right? is this the debut of a new one or has she been around a while? at first i thought they may have made her trans but then i realized how unlikely that was for a long-standing character, even a minor one. what's her backstory? does her canon coincide with any previous versions? (i'm vaguely recalling a post of yours with 4 versions of this character over the years.)

i'm probably never gonna read any of the comics myself but i think she seems really cool and i really like hearing about comic character lore, so if you're up for an infodump i'd love to hear it :D

HI THANK YOU I'M ECSTATIC. YOU'VE ALSO ACTIVATED MY AUTISM TRAP CARD WITH THE TRANS THING. AND ALSO THE OTHER STUFF BUT THE TRANS THING SPECIFICALLY.

So you are correct, all the previous Kid Eternity incarnations have been guys! And yes, there have been a couple versions of him across the years (four or five, depending on who you ask/how we're drawing lines). This is the opener image I made for my "all Kid Eternity appearances" spreadsheet (still a WIP) that I made, and I feel like that helps give a quick reference for him. (It's not full opacity, but unfortunately I no longer have the original file and can't change that.)

So, this new Kid Eternity seems to be an entirely new iteration of the character. One, she's got a new costume (though it's riffing heavily on the 90s/early 2000s version of the character), and two, everyone is pretty sure she's a girl, which is insanely exciting for me specifically. This JSA issue, which came out today, is her first appearance ever, and that page I've posted like twice now is her only appearance in the actual issue, since it happens right at the end. As such, we have no idea what her deal is, or how she lines up with Kid's past appearances. However, that means it's time to speculate wildly!

A quick note about the trans thing- you're right that making any longstanding character trans would be kinda crazy for DC, even a character like Kid who's had less than 100 appearances under DC's ownership, but if it was going to happen to anyone, I could see it happening here. One, Kid is wildly minor. Like I said, less than 100 appearances while under DC's copyright, and when you add in the comics from when he was owned by Quality Comics, he still doesn't cross the 200 appearances line. So while making a character that's existed since the 1940s trans would be kinda crazy, if you're gonna pick any character to do it to, you may as well pick one that everyone forgot existed back in the 90s.

Furthermore, Kid is a character who's played a lot with concepts of gender and sexuality. You'll notice that the two pictures in the middle of the above image feature Kid with long hair (and in the costume closest to the kid we saw in the new JSA), for one, but the second image is a cover from Kid's third solo, which was published under the Vertigo imprint. Vertigo was an imprint that DC started back in the 90s that focused on publishing adult content that wasn't necessarily suitable for DC's primary audience. This means stuff like sex, nudity, drug use, etc. but it also means a lot of queer characters and story lines were published under this imprint. Just to name a few, John Constantine/Hellblazer, the Doom Patrol, and Sandman are pretty famously queer characters/groups, and they were some of Vertigo's big names back in the 90s.

Kid is never explicitly trans in his Vertigo run, and no actual trans characters ever appear to my memory, but they do play with his gender just a bit (particularly, in my opinion, in issue 9, "Hysteria Knows No Gender", but it's not much, just a fun possible read). The comic also deals very heavily with homophobia and hate crimes in some of the last few issues, and don't shy away from the idea of queerness at all. (Genuinely, issues 10-12 of this comic are harrowing reads. Issue 10 deals with violence against women while issues 11 and 12 deal with homophobia and my god are they heavy.)

Also a point that has less to do with Kid and more with the comic itself, but still something worth bringin up- this is happening in JSA (2024), and the JSA has made a couple longstanding and/or much more important characters (in the grand scheme of things) queer in the past! Notably, Todd Rice (obsidian) (first appearance 1983) was revealed to be gay in 2006 and Alan Scott (the first green lantern) (first appearance 1940) was revealed to be gay within like, the last 5 years. Still no trans retcons to my knowledge (though I'm not super up to date on the JSA, so if I may be missing some important stuff), but that's still pretty notable in my opinion.

ALL OF THIS IS TO SAY that while Kid has never been trans before, this Kid being trans genuinely doesn't feel out of the question to me. I'm not gonna get my hopes up or anything, but hey, wouldn't it be cool???

Anyways, the other questions you asked! Like I said, we ultimately know nothing about this version of Kid Eternity right now, except what she looks like, and that she's in Hell (par for the course for Kid, to be quite honest.) Judging from which comic she features in and what her costume looks like, however, I think I can solidly say that the backstory they'll be drawing on is the 90s era backstory, so I'll give a quick rundown of that!

Kid's initial backstory, from the 1940s, boils down to this: Kid was a child on a sailing ship that ran afoul of a Nazi sub during WW2. Kid and the rest of the crew, including his grandfather, died and went to a place called "Eternity" (legally distinct Heaven). Upon their arrival, however, it was found that Kid had arrived about 60 years before his time. In return for the mistake, he is sent back to earth with new powers and a spiritual guardian from Eternity, Mr. Keeper. These new powers allow him to shout the word "Eternity" and call on any historical, mythological, or fictional characters and summon their ghosts to help him solve problems. The fictional characters fall by the wayside after a certain point because of copy right concerns, I imagine, but I have to bring it up because it's always comical. Shout out to the time he summoned Jean Valjean to talk a thief out of stealing a loaf of bread and when that didn't work he summoned Javert and then Javert and Valjean beat each other up until he sent them back.

The 90s backstory, which is introduced by Grant Morrison in a horror mini series, builds on this backstory with a few retcons. Most notably, Kid never actually went to "Eternity" or any sort of heaven. Instead, he went to hell, where he was picked up by a staple of the DC magical mythos called the Lords of Chaos (which are exactly as bad as they sound), specifically by the one who paraded himself as Mr. Keeper. He was lied to about what happened to him when he died, about what was happening to him upon his arrival in Hell, and was strung along to do the Lords of Chaos' bidding for decades before he was able to free himself in a really complicated series of retcons and dumb writing choices across about 20 comics written and released over about two decades so we won't get into the weeds of that part.

The Lords of Chaos are opposed by a group called the Lords of Order (who could've guessed!) who are very important to the Justice Society, primarily to Dr. Fate, a key member, because Dr. Fate is a Lord of Order possessing/manifesting through a human person (and a helmet). Not only that, but this new Kid has appeared in JSA volume 2. The first JSA came out in 1999, and y'know who appears (and dies but that's less important) in the first issue of that comic: 90s Kid Eternity! It's a part of this whole plot regarding agents of the Lords of Chaos and Order, and since the current plot of this comic has a lot to do with Dr. Fate, I imagine that Kid is being pulled from that original JSA comic to be introduced as a potential foil to the current Dr. Fate (a young man who seems to be close in age to this version of Kid) and/or as another wrinkle in the Everything that's going on.

ALL OF THIS TO SAY! We really don't know much yet, but Kid Eternity is literally one of my nichest favorite characters of all time, and I am beyond ecstatic to see them running around again (fun fact, post New 52 reboot in 2011, Kid has had a whole thirteen appearances, and 6 of those appearances weren't even in the mainline universe. It was dire out here!)

[ratthumbsup]

i cannot stop thinking about the logistics of the scarytown in from. sara's brother was tending to ALL of the animals? by himself? is he also growing the wheat they need to make flour and all the crops they need to eat? they have a restaurant, but what about general store? do they all just eat all their meals in the diner prepared by kenny's mom? is kenny's mom cooking for EVERYONE? how many people are actually in town/colony house? who is rationing the food they're able to grow? seems like donna is in charge of rationing at colony house, but who is doing that in town? boyd? why don't we ever SEE that? i assume the running water and electricity just work, but the food thing is crazy. they're making their own potato vodka, so it's not like processed foods are just appearing in the way the animals are. they don't seem to have anyone on food preparation duty. why isn't anyone on food preparation duty?

[tarnussy]

social anxiety is interesting because for a while now I've been on the fence about posting even just mildly svggestive things in the tags, (even if that means just leaving tags on my own posts) solely because I know I have a follower that is extremely against it and sometimes vagueblogging about it is involved and sure enough, happened this time as well

and even though that's a them problem and not mine, why do I feel extremely guilty and anxious about it? it's like my extremely prudish family all over again, this time online, which was the only place where I could be a bit free in that regard

anxiety is awful, I hate it

[bmpmp3]

(jigsaw voice) hello viz media. kodansha. seven seas whoever the fuck- hello english manga localization companies. before you is a list of shoujosei manga:

ah itoshi no banchousama

himitsu top secret

love rerun

kotou buchou (and hitomonchaku nara yorokonde while ur at it)

sora wo kakeru yodoka

dame na watashi ni koishite kudasai

you have however long you need to make english releases of these series. WITH physical release. i want them on my book shelf so i can sit on the floor and read them instead of doing my homework. if you do not follow my demands than i will., be sad

[f1owermoon]

today was SO ASS

[crescentfool]

hello to the new influx of people who followed me from my silly little ryomina comic 👋 i hope everyone enjoys their stay!!! 🥳 i am very p3 piled with sprinkles of splatoon. please feel free to browse my blog tags and archives like it's your feed, i always like seeing posts circulate :3

and to everyone on this fine saturday. or sunday! have an excellent week :) you are so cool

[auden-dahn]

preorders for the @moon-knight-zine charity zine Lunar Labyrinth are open!!

i was lucky enough to get to do two pieces for it, one of which you can also get as a poster!! all stretch goals have been met and its supporting NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) which is an awesome cause, so please take a look and show my fellow contributors some love!! 🌙✨

[beepsparks]

Why is my Phil Ridarelli fanart some of the top posts on Neo Futurists tags on Instagram someone help me

[subsequentibis]

sigh. i would fling myself upon flansburgh of that era like a rabid frothing hound. obviously nowadays one must take a more suave approach. but in the 90s you could carry him off like a large bird of prey i thiunk.