#feel free to correct anything i got wrong

[chaoticcultist]

Long story short: I was going research on gems and thought Labradorite represented Stolas perfectly.

According to the Helluva Boss and the original Lesser Key of Solomon, Stolas is the teacher of Astronomy and the Virtues of Herbs and Precious Stones.

While metaphysical properties of Labradorite include the regular protection and healing aspects given to many gems, Labradorite is also said to represent the Temple of Stars and assist people in traveling between Worlds.

While Stolas is shown with his plants plenty of times in the show, he's also shown with star motifs often and sometimes even wears star/galaxy themed clothing.

Obligatory reference to "Look My Way"

And as far as the "Assisting People in Traveling Between Worlds" part:

Stolas is the one providing IMP with methods to travel between Hell and Earth, which are treated like different planets or dimensions in the Hellaverse. First, it's with the loaning of his Grimoire, then as of Episode 8 of Season 2, it's with the gift of the Asmodean Crystal.

Finally, it's worth noting that while Stolas is without a doubt an Owl in Helluva Boss, he is also sometimes described as a long-legged Raven in the Lesser Key of Solomon. The constant with his description is that when Stolas doesn't look human, he looks like a bird with gray/dark feathers.

Vivziepop stayed faithful to the source material on that, making him a gray Owl with mostly darker tones except at his facial disc. He would be a very boring character to look at if it weren't for his style, surroundings and personality.

What's notable about Labradorite is that at first glance, it looks like a boring gray stone. It's only when you polish the stone and angle light through it correctly that shining iridescent colors are reveled.

All this to say:

Stolas reminds me of my favorite gemstone

[chair002]

Thinking about Bacon's role on The Players.

In one of his conversations with Zam, Minute talks about the cycle of violence on Lifesteal and Zam retors by saying "why would I not want it to continue? I like it," (paraphrased) and while it's true that all of The Players *liked* conflict & violence & doing fucked up things in theory, because it's fun for them, Zam is a fairly strong player who can afford to get into huge conflicts and come out alive & on top. At the time of the conversation he had 18 hearts and at his peak he had 30 (!!!) so one of the ways Zam does benefit from having huge conflicts on the server, aside from the fact that he simply finds them fun, is that he can stand up for himself and his ideals with his fists, he can come out of encounters heart-positive and if he does something drastic he is pretty hard to stop or retaliate against. Same can be said about Mapicc, and about Roshambo & Clown, but not Bacon.

One of PB&J's morals they wanted to uphold is being nice to the weaker players. Minute believed that violence and killing are bad for Lifesteal as a whole, but obviously, the impact Minute felt from conflicts was not the same one as someone with <10 hearts would feel. He'd make a show out of giving 4C (i think?) gear and hearts, going, this is how i care about the weak, unlike the evil Players, who are evil & cruel to them, but for obvious reasons, unless Bacon completely switched sides, Minute would never include him in the category of people he'd like to help or donate to and he was fine with killing him in battles (granted most if not all of Bacon's hearts are technically Mapicc's). He's not a strong player and can't hold his own in a (PVP) conflict but simultaneously he doesn't fit the image of someone like a KITC member, or Poafa, or Spepticle, or whoever the 'good' chungus players were that PB&J wanted to help. So he ends up in this limbo where he's not strong enough to benefit from the war The Players are waging but PB&J don't pity him either.

So this was always interesting to me. Bacon's a pretty nasty person with bad morals so he likes the villains, sure, but in a weird way this loops around to him being selfless in how much he sacrifices for The Players' goals (literally his life) while not reaping any benefits at all, besides temporary ones, like having access to the team's gear and hearts, which expired as soon as the new season started and they weren't teamed anymore. They won, and the cycle continued, but where he had Mapicc and the rest to support him in S5, in S6 he's struggling really badly, because, well, there's no one like Minute going around and giving him stuff out of the kindness of his heart.

It's a little similar to how he got into CFG, though obviously The Players treated him much much better. He thought, 'oh, this will be fun for me, i can team with the evil villain and do evil stuff!' and it was fun for a while before he realized the way Wemmbu goes about conflict is only making him feel shitty and lose time & resources and he's losing more than he is gaining. And it will probably be that way forever for him, but there is nothing he can do, because his beliefs and his personality and everything he stands for, and, most importantly, the server itself, the nature of the cycle of violence on Lifesteal that he so respects, are all working against him at all times.

Bacon Waffles is the woman who keeps voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, keeps getting his face eaten by the leopards after they win, and keeps going 'hm. my life fucking sucks' and regretting nothing. and you gotta respect that

[thewolfprince]

Saw a post (by a white supremacy OP) that was basically Jake Sully betrayed his species for “blue (slur) cat girl p*ssy”

Which is absolutely incorrect and already has a wonderful response using dialogue from the movie. I can’t remember who made the amazing response but I’m here for another one.

I checked the reblogs and someone asked (and I’m putting this in short, sweet, non-slur words) if the US military has all this technology and the Avatar program and putting people into cryosleep - why didn’t they heal Jake?

I present two reasons, and they both lead to my final theory (*cough* thesis statement *cough) which I will present first:

The US military was never going to heal Jake and “give him his legs back” (not sure if this is the exact quote from the movie but I’m fairly certain it’s at least close).

First, I believe Jake in the eyes of the US Military is nothing but another foot soldier. Another grunt, another Marine. The only reason he got into the Avatar program was because his brother Tommy died and they didn’t want the Avatar to go to waste and cost thousands of dollars. So they brought in Jake.

Secondly, and the more important point: they were using Jake’s own disability as leverage against him to get him to do what they wanted. Why would they bother to feed the horse the carrot when they can keep dangling it just out of reach? Evil Military Guy, after one of Jake’s missions, tells him “keep this up and we can get you your legs back.” He knows that Jake wants to walk again. It’s the perfect leverage to keep Jake under his thumb to extract information from him about the Avatar program and the Omatikaya people.

And of course once the military wipes the tribe out and gets their investor’s ore, what reason would they need to keep Jake around? None. Why pay hundreds of thousands of dollars when you can simply kill the dude and say “oh no, the wilds of Pandora got him!”?

Once I watch Avatar again I’ll probably reblog this with stuff that I missed.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

pls don’t send off anon

prefacing this by saying i’m gender critical, genuinely looking for answers & not trying to promote gender ideology

how do feminist GCs respond to the observation of 20 genes linked to being transgender? they’re variants of genes involved in neurologic development and sex hormones. does this lend more validity to self-id??

a teacher also gave me resources about there being six biological karyotype sexes, which seem somewhat common and can go under the radar. he says that sex is a continuum. is someone with xx male a man or a woman? male phenotype but they’re xx. seems like male but it’s being used to argue that sex isn’t as simple of a dichotomy as we think.

1. No because whether or not there are genes that make someone more prone to dysphoria/trans identification, it still doesn’t override the material reality of biological sex. That will always be the bottom line

2. Such conditions are exceedingly rare and none of them are separate sex in and of themselves(humans would produce more than 2 gametes if that were the case). They are a tiny minority and they do not invalidate the facts that are true for the vast majority. 99.9% or so of the population are unambiguously male or female; there is not a spectrum where we are all ‘more’ or ‘less’ male or female than each other. What is actually true is that there are a tiny amount of people with DSDs, and then there is everyone else who is without. Not so much a spectrum as a binary that very occasionally goes wrong and gets muddled(I’m not sure if that’s the best explanation, anyone feel free to explain it better). Better healthcare and public acceptance is needed for individuals with DSDs of course, but their existence does not invalidate the sex binary of the human species. Those who suggest that anyone could have abnormal chromosomes and could just not know it are being very misleading. The individual almost always will know because their body will exhibit atypical symptoms for their sex

[justdrawlynn11]

Hey guys I did some math-

I was looking back at details from and about Ruin’s dimension- and I fell down a rabbit hole- as I typically do with time differences in between dimensions-

To make it simpler:

Ruin’s dimension

Our/Majority Tsbs Dimension

So at first I was curious on how long between the first time Sun had visited Ruin’s home dimension and the second time in the second October takeover occurred. Sun visited in July the first time and the second time was (obviously) in October, so around 3 months. In the October takeover we learned that most of October is equivalent to about a week in Ruin’s dimension.

Warning: There’s quite a bit of math-

Let’s say around 3 weeks(or just a majority of a month) in our dimension is equivalent to 1 week in Ruin’s, 3 months for us would be just around 3-4 weeks in Ruin’s dimension.

I was THEN curious for how long it took since we first ever saw his dimension for it to be considered dead (or at least for when his Creator died, you know what I mean-). I guesstimate that his dimension officially died in either our February or early March last year at the MOST, as it died before Ruin killed 5000 dimensions. That would be around 7 months, which would equate to 9 weeks.

I was like: “That’s a short amount of time for the wither storm to kill the dimension, but maybe it just worked quickly-”

AND THEN I REALIZED SOMETHING-

How long HAD Ruin’s Creator been in the council if it’d already been 50 years? Because something feels like it isn’t adding up with our Creator’s age- you know, THE ONE WHO STARTED THE COUNCIL-

So I started doing even MORE math-

(3 months will just equal 4 weeks from now on for convenience sake)

4 weeks every 3 months, leading to 16 weeks every year, but I’m adding an extra week for any possible extra days throughout the year. So it’s 17 weeks every year.

For 1 year in Ruin’s dimension, 3 years and a little less than a month have to have passed in the tsams dimension.

(Around 52 weeks a year. 17 • 3 = 51. Add in 1 week and we have ourselves a year)

NOW we multiply the 3 years & 3 weeks by the 50 years!

But how? Well..

(Idk how to do a repeating sign on numbers on here so I’m just explaining my process- the decimals are far too long at points)

1/12 = 0.083(3 repeating)

0.083(3 repeating)/4 = 0.02083(3 repeating)

0.02083(3 repeating) • 3 = 0.0625

The 0.083(3 repeating) is 1 month, I divided that by 4 to get 0.02083(3 repeating) for every week. Multiply that by 3 to get to the decimal for most of a month, 0.0625. A whole number is a year(ex: 1, 2, 3).

Adding 3 to 0.0625 will leave us with 3.0625.

Now we multiply that by 50 to get our time estimate for how long 50 years over there was for us.

3.0625 • 50 = 153.125 years.

153 years and 6 weeks(not counting any leap years/days into that). That’s how long the 50 years was for us. Their Creator had to have been on that council for at LEAST that long…

But our Creator, the one who STARTED the council, isn’t that old on the character wiki-

I’m sorry if my math is wrong in some way. I just fell down a rabbit hole and wanna share it-

[real-reulbbr-band]

The Reimagining of Cats Undermines Female Characterization

My anxiety's going to eat me alive if I keep being chicken about posting this so here's my more in depth feelings regarding what I mean in this post. All opinions expressed are my own and based on what I know of pac. Anyone is free to disagree with me. and thank you to @pinkieclown and @per-the-jellicle-magician for proof reading!

I”ll keep this simple cause I don’t want to get ranty on Tumblr, but by removing and cutting so many aspects of the show out they’ve lost key characterization for the female cast and replaced them with virtually nothing.

My problem isn’t that the characters don’t resemble their stage counterparts; that was expected. The issue is that they aren’t given much of a character at all. You could switch their names, and nothing would change. This problem isn’t apparent with their male counterparts with previously established on-stage storylines. 

Male characters in the reimagining, such as Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, and even Macavity, retain or gain distinctive characteristics and storylines. Munkustrap is portrayed as an MC not a leader but still very much leading the show, it’s the same general role; Rum Tum Tugger as a charming rogue though slightly more akin to his 2019 movie counterpart except he still manages to ‘save the day’ at the end, and Macavity, despite his thievery, is given a more comical persona with a deeper relation to his now fellow jellicles.

 In contrast, female characters are stripped of their individuality and reduced to plot devices or mere extensions of male characters. Victoria doesn’t experience a coming-of-age or even touch Grizabella here. (It’s old Deut pretty sure which…I have problems with) She’s simply another attendant at the ball with a solo at the start that lacks deeper meaning. She’s portrayed as a ‘drag baby,’ and as stated by her actress  this isn’t even her first ball. No pas de deux or additional solo is performed to further her importance in the narrative. This reduction strips Victoria of her journey and her role within the tribe or in this case community. 

Demeter and Bombalurina have no dark history with Macavity, which affects Demeter’s characterization more than Bomb’s. They are reduced to his drag daughters and are merely other competitors at the ball who further Macavity’s story by being the ones he steals for. This change eliminates the layers of trauma and complexity in Demeter’s character, reducing her to a plot device for Macavity’s storyline.

If the female characters aren’t given distinct roles, their characters end up heavily associated with male counterparts: Jellylorum with Gus, Jennyanydots with Munkustrap, and of course, Bombalurina and Demeter with Macavity. They don’t exist as individuals without these associations, as their typical roles are relegated to the background.

In the original stage show, despite its issues in instances, female characters like Demeter and Bombalurina exhibit significant agency and emotional depth. Demeter’s fear of Macavity and Bombalurina’s protective nature towards her and the kittens add layers to their characters. The reimagining erases this agency, reducing them to passive participants who exist only to further male characters' narratives. Namely Macavity’s here.

Now, it is important to note that a lot of characterization happens outside of the character’s main numbers. Things like who they interact with in their down time, what they do when they’re not actively participating in a song besides simply watching and waiting for the next que; that’s when the actors are given time to just be the character. The actors don’t have as many opportunities to do that here just due to the formatting of the show with the runway catwalk and walking space outside it. During which they’re mostly interacting with the audience or reacting to what’s happening on stage. They don’t have a lot of moments to just interact with each other to give the audience a better feel of who they are. 

The reduction of female characters in 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' reflects broader patterns of misogyny in the media. Historically, female characters have often been sidelined, their stories minimized, and their roles diminished to support male-centric plots. This reimagining perpetuates this problematic trend by failing to provide female characters with the same depth and development afforded to their male counterparts.

I know what you’re going to say ‘but Grizabella’. Yea, Grizabella has fifteen minutes of stage time and she’s the character who resembles her stage counterpart the most. That’s why these issues negate her and she’s of the few I don’t have this problem with, the others being Rumpleteazer, Cassandra, and Skimbleshanks as her role has never had a deeper narrative meaning outside of reflecting the behaviors of the tribe as a whole.

In conclusion, the reimagining of 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' is a missed opportunity to reframe and enrich the narratives of its female characters. Instead, it falls into the trap of diminishing their roles and individuality, perpetuating a longstanding issue in media representation.

[dittydipity]

what is kagepro? - a quick guide

you may be seeing the word "kagepro" around a whole bunch, especially during august, but what the hell is it?

you may have heard or seen something from kagepro without realizing it! you know that vocaloid song, kagerou daze, about the kids who get hit by a truck and are stuck in a timeloop of saving each other? that's actually one of the songs from kagepro.

kagepro, short for the kagerou project, is a series created by vocaloid composer jin (also known as shizen no teki-p). it's a mixed media series that has music, manga, an anime, movie, a radio talk show, books, etc but i’ll try to keep it simple!

basic premise: people who die on 8/15 are taken to another world called the kagerou daze and if they return to the real world, they will have gained a “snake ability” that will turn their eyes red when used. a group of teens that have these abilities form a little gang but are thrown into an endless timeloop.

THE MEDIA

if you want to get into it, there’s a bunch of different ways you can do it, but do keep in mind: each form of media is NOT just a different adaptation of the story.

kagepro is a timeloop story, and each form of media is actually a different timeline (or “route”). the music videos, the anime, the manga, the books - each one is only a piece of the whole story. that’s why many people may have seen the anime, mekakucity actors, and gotten super confused because the anime is actually one of the last routes haha.

but the order of media that has been generally agreed upon to be the most coherent is music videos -> manga -> light novels -> anime

a lot of kagepro media, esp the light novels and manga, are hard to find since they’re almost entirely out of print, but there’s translations or e-book versions of them available, or if you skip them there’s summaries that people have made. you can also ask me if you want :]

music videos

i’ve actually made a couple playlists for the songs! one is in release order and the other is in story chronological order (mostly).

release order: - i tried to get all the original ia/miku versions of the songs with the original pv if there was one - a couple might be a little out of order since some songs came out together in the same album

this is the order that fans got the music, so if you want to try to figure things out and put things together the way we did you can go with this order!

chronological order: - tried to grab some english covers where i could, but if you don’t like eng covers there are plenty of noneng covers or you can use the videos from the other playlist. there's plenty of really great covers out there! - exceptions to the “chronological”: children record acts as the cover/opening song for the series and summertime record is the ending song for the series - some songs aren’t in here bc they’re not part of the music route (they’re mostly from the newer albums and are kinda like ‘epilogue’ songs after the ending of the anime/good ending or are songs made for the anime)

THE STORY

if you don't want to go through all the media yourself, here’s a video explaining the whole story by breadbox/david toth! he also has other really great kagepro videos

[a bit of an extra] a very common misconception about the story/mechanics: people do not have to die in pairs or with somebody else on 8/15 to enter the daze. i didn’t realize this myself until super recently

all in all, the kagerou project is a story about finding strength and support from the people around you, moving on to look towards the future, and overcoming trauma.

there’s definitely other people who have also made guides or summaries or videos that are much better and cover much more than i did, but i hope this was a decent introduction!

feel free to reach out and/or ask me anything! i'm sure there are also plenty of people who would be willing to help newcomers understand kagepro as well :]

happy kagerou day!

[mistyycowoa]

Confessing my sins to the internet because my irl friends don't know my tumblr

I'm actually a horrible friend and I don't plan to change :)

I'll be a good friend to anyone I actually like and I usually don't associate with people who I don't like, but sometimes there will be an occasional lonely (usually annoying) kid that follows me around. (They're lonely for a reason.) I kinda hate people who are loud literally all the time but I can hold my tongue and this kinda person just doesn't leave because they're not being told directly to leave.

What do I do? I talk to them only when I need them, I make unnecessarily mean comments as a joke, I point out their obvious flaws that I know they have a hard time changing, and all while they still follow me around like I'm not kinda bullying them.

Sometimes I'll treat them like an actual friend when I'm in a good mood, but if I'm not, then the unfortunate victim becomes my emotional punching bag. (I have ways to quickly fix my mood and this is completely unnecessary and I could distance myself until I feel better like how I do with actual friends.) I think this is like. Breadcrumbing? Anyways yeah, toxic shit.

If any of your "friends" treat you like this, they don't see you as a friend. If they leave you doubting if they like you or not, leave you doubting if you're actually friends, they probably don't see you as a friend. (because that's the case for me :3 )

I'm a horrible human being and I don't feel nearly as bad as I should about it :)

[sixteenscreed]

things I have learned after a truly painful amount of not swearing casually:

the beach I woke up on is called Prelude Beach

the village next to it is Jubilife Village

nobody seems to have heard of Unova, which is the only other place location I've heard from Des. points to us not being anywhere near each other. another win for phones existing

apparently this general area is called Hisui

my clothes absolutely do not match what anyone here is wearing so I stand out A Lot

everyone is completely fucking terrified of my still-unnamed zorua

many people seem terrified of pokemon in general which I thought was not the norm based on what little I knew about it before events directly before me ending up here

in summary: I still don't know what's going on. but at least I'm not dead again.

[zvahlne]

im kinda out of the aphmau loop...whats alternates ? (anon bc i dont wanna look stupid💔)

you're not stupid, don't worry!!

alternates is a new series jess started in march! it has four episodes out, and it's an actual, serialized story!!! it's inspired by the mandela catalogue, so if you like that kind of horror you should totally check it out! it also has a lot of the old mystreet cast in it - katelyn and travis have had a LOT of great screentime!!! it really picks up and it's had me on the edge of my seat since episode three

it's the first serious series she's made in a long time, so it's very exciting :) i hope if you watch it, you enjoy!! i'd love to hear your thoughts!

[fuckmatpat]

Hey! I was wondering if you had thoughts on wendigoon? I have been watching his videos lately and he mentioned matpat in his fnaf episode (I found out later after trying to watch the video that fnaf's creator is transphobic). So, transphobic references x2. I am basically on the fence about wendigoon bc he hasn't said anything specifically on the other videos I've seen... idk I was wondering if you had thoughts on this. Thank you for your time!

well... i don't watch him. so i don't have much or any comment on his work or videos. but i'd probably start with the name/branding he has going on. He profits off of indigenous culture/folklore by selling plushes of the creature in its image. The creature is used to represent (from what i've been told) native americans being displaced and their people being horribly mistreated by colonizers. It's representitve of trauma. Knowing what i know from natives in this community and outside of it, it feels extra gross and anti-indigenous, what he's doing.

Also turning a creature from indigenous folklore into a 'quirky username' is kind of 😬😬

i would not really suggest him as a content creator to watch

[littlepillbugs]

On my site: Cat breeding genes simulator

Use it here!

Note: The ginger gene is sex-linked, so only the XX parent (the queen) can be a tortie/calico in this simulation. But feel free to use this for gay cat pairings if you want to

[mrrosedoodler]

News Update

Let's start with what's going on in Palestine today. On June 25th, 2024, Israeli forces have targeted five displacement camps, have attacked a home in Khan Younis and a tent in al-Mawasi that was sheltering people. Said attack has killed and injured at least six people at the time of this report.

Famine continues to be a struggle for Palestinians, as they are left with little to nothing to feed themselves and their families. Families have been resorting to eating grass, animal feed, and anything they can get their hands on to try and keep themselves alive.

Two schools have been bombed and set ablaze, killing 14 people thus far.

The current death toll for Palestinians stands at 37,658 deaths, with an additional 86,237 injured.

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Sudan has been having a humanitarian crisis for years, with the situation only becoming worse.

Since April 15th, 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a violent civil war. Many Sudan residents have had to flee their homes to escape the conflict. On top of all of this, Sudan has been experiencing severe weather events - mainly floods and droughts. Crops and livestock have dwindled, bringing about an extreme shortage of food and water.

As of June 10, 2024, 12+ million people have been forced to leave behind their homes and evacuate.

Almost 15,000 people have been killed as of April 19, 2024.

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Here are some charities you can donate to in order to help Palestine and Sudan;

PALESTINE -

Palestine Children's Relief Fund

UNRWA

Doctors Without Borders

SUDAN -

CARE

Doctors Without Borders

Sudan Relief Fund

If you can't help monetarily, spread the word and look into this document for ways to help Palestine. I'm going to start looking into ways to help Sudan outside of charities - if anyone has anything they can contribute, please reach out!

[yaboijakie]

context: i never watched rvb zero, i watched one episode and just never felt the desire to continue watching it

however i am currently rewatching the rvb series with a friend who is watching it for the first time, so i'm willing to give rvb zero a chance once we get to it. maybe it isn't as bad as i saw people say it was

but i got curious and decided to look into the reactions towards it and also learned a bit more about how the season was made and all i can say is

what the fuck were they thinking

[galning27]

I'm so fucking tired of people calling the gen 8 fossil pokémon "bad". they are the best fossil pokemon for 2 reasons

they are adorable sins against nature and I love them for it.

they are based on the real thing called the bone wars that happened around 1877-1892. Basically two guys, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, were both paleontologists and they both wanted to be the person with the most dinosaurs discovered because they wanted fame and money, so they used underhanded tactics to sabotage each other, as well as (among other things) claim that the baby dino and adult dino from the same species were different species, mixing up fossils and putting the head of one species on the body of another (sound familiar).

so in conclusion: they are abominations and I love them.

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Ok so!

My mind is an overtime worker with benefits that loves its job, and holy moley does having writer friends get those extra hours in

So, Reverse Robin Au’s right? General consensus I see is that Tim gets JJ’d in those worlds to coincide with Jason getting crowbarred and/or Steph goes and has her revenge on Black Mask a-la Jason’s revenge on the Joker

My friend, @thefantasmarex, shared their idea and we got to chatting and I thought “Huh, what about a reverse YJ?”

Reverse in the fact that they have their lives swapped with their other counterparts or more villainous characters like them to fit an Outlaws model to go with the Reverse Robins! Tim and Steph

My mind went to swapping Kon with Match, making Kon an initially obedient clone who escaped and has a degenerative issue with his body YJ!outlaws helped him with when they found him. With this swap Kon isn’t a mixed DNA clone, he’s a genetic ‘Match’ to Superman but is really unstable and needs maintenance CADMUS can’t keep up with for their pet superhero so he’s left to die after a mission gone wrong, so he names himself Matthew after getting consciousness the same way he elongated his Kryptonian name. Kon -> Conner, Match -> Matthew

Bart is swapped with Inertia, aged slower instead of faster and this chaotic kid who’s way to smart and aware for his age bc he aged really messed up. I named him Ardor.

Cassie, in lack of villains or nemeses I knew about for her, is swapped with Artemis of Bana-Mighdall. Having been scooped up by Amazons while with her mom at a dig after she’d wandered off really young and was raised as a warrior in the same vein as Artemis, going in this AU but he name Hestia instead.

Plus, I toyed around with the thought of Artemis and “Match” still being around the same way Jason comes into okay and becomes the next Robin later. The new ‘Superboy’ is a mix of Superman and a human donor to be more stabilized but is more attention seeking and only cares about heroism when it’s caught on camera, leaning into being the perfect pet superhero because it gets him what he wants: Adoration from his fans and praise from his creators.

From what I read (admittedly from a few wiki’s and feel free to correct me or add on) Artemis was raised by patriotic American soldiers as parents (??) so while she gets Cassie’s old backstory she’s also a bit flawed, earning the recognition that grants her the blessing that empower her to be like an Amazon but leans more towards the fighting and warrior spirit bit of it all and not the diplomatic “fight with compassion and love” side of it all Diana also promotes.