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[bet-on-me-13]

The Fentonworks Mega-Lab.

So! AU where the Fentonworks Labs actually stretch Miles upon Miles below the City of Amity Park.

It started when the Fentons wanted to add a simple addition to the original Lab when they ran out of space to store their more dangerous weapons. They didn't want their (at the time) young children getting their hands on their experimental Weaponry, it could blow up in their faces!

So they built a different Wing of the Lab to hold all those Inventions.

Then they ran out of space and added a few extra Storage Rooms. But then they decided it was a hassle to have to carefully transport their Dangerous Inventions all the way to the Storage Rooms, and built a Lab specifically for Dangerous Experiments near that same Section. Then that Lab was occupied for a while, and Jack wanted to start a different experiment as well, so they built a few more.

In the end they just never stopped building onto their Labs.

There are sections of the Mega-Lab that are entirely walled off because a few of their more unstable Experiments contaminated the area. Walking into them was not recommended, else you could walk out with an extra eye or 5.

In other sections, their Captured Ghosts had taken over a few Labs and created a sort of Mad Max style civilization using their discarded weapons and vehicles.

In another, all Ghosts became Humans and all Humans became Ghosts. That was a weird one, to this day they still didn't understand how they pulled that off.

In another, some type of Eldritch Time Ghost had been born, and now sort of always existed and never existed, and began experimenting with its powers. They nicknamed it Clocky because it liked to carry around a stopwatch.

And so many more. At one point a failed Portal Experiment messed with the internal Space of the entire thing. Now there was literally no way of Mapping it. The Fentons still somehow managed to navigate it perfectly.

When Jazz and Danny grew up, they too learned how to navigate the Labs, which is how Danny managed to show his friends the Portal Experimentation Wing in the first place.

Unfortunately, it wasn't safe for anyone aside from the Fentons to enter the Mega-Labs, so one day when the Fenton Family+friends left town on a Week Long Camping/Road Trip, they put up a few Ghost Shields to keep both Humans out and the Ghosts in.

This drew some unwanted attention after some tourists saw the giant Glowng Green Building in the middle of an Illinois Town, and rightfully called the Justice League.

Now, the Justice League had tried to call the owners of the house, but nobody picked up the phone. (An incident with Jack and a Canoe had knocked most of their phones into the lake. They weren't even at the lake yet.)

When nobody picked up, they decided to investigate personally.

After getting into the House, they quickly found a door labeled "Labs: Do Not Enter (unless it we are late for Dinner)" and went into ignoring all the warnings.

They quickly regretted it.

[yeonggisbitch]

the half-pony hairstyle looks so pretty on her, it’s a look

[front-facing-pokemon]

[krikidilly]

New au getting cooked up atehe agiggle

[linddzz]

Luckily the "what if the SHARK impregnated our ray???" seems to be dying down and bigger news organizations have the corrected information in their articles, but I wanted to share this great blog post by marine conservation biologist David Shiffman that covers both the cool actual science that got overshadowed while actually calling out the facility for how unscientifically they handled it and for the fact that they doubled down (esp since newer media they've put out is softly backtracking and it looks like they're attempting to play it off as a joke that the news misreported. Nope. They put the idea out there like it was as possible as parthenogenesis while calling themselves scientists at a "shark lab")

From the conclusion:

Unfortunately, poor handling of this story has made it likely that we are on track for another year where the most-shared news story about a shark or ray is pseudoscientific nonsense, rather than about their dire conservation needs, their importance to marine and coastal ecosystems, or amazing new discoveries about them. As a longtime supporter of zoos and aquariums and the roles they play in public science education, I am especially troubled by some of the public-facing communications here. If your goal is sharing knowledge with the public, there’s value in gaining accurate knowledge about the subject yourself first. Sharing wrong facts is not “raising awareness” or educating the public, and falsely claiming “anything is possible, don’t trust the experts” is, to put it mildly, not helping the ocean.

It's a great article to drop in if the "omg shark/ray babies???" keeps spreading. Or if you just enjoy niche science drama. The aquarium world doesn't get much of that

[hannafia]

Every time I think about Dylan Faden, I get so mad at Darling and Trench for believing they could kidnap a child, fill him with neurosis, and think that could result in a well-adjusted enough individual who could be in charge of this clubhouse they built on top of some eldritch horrors

[fuckyeahbananafreak]

justin chien is an example how gorgeous a man looks with perfect facial hair

[lonelyzarquon]

[fullonpostal]

Rameel Eisheth uh

[my-demons-have-populations]

psych wards are prisons

[stardusteyes]

I think it’s funny how the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman were initially present from the beginning of the Project Moon-verse in Lobotomy Corporation but the rest of the gang wouldn’t show up until the spinoffs and sequels.

Considering their canon relationship, it just ends up driving home that Tincrow is a package deal no matter where they are.

[taliejane]

Omfg UK and US 18-25s I'm begging you to vote in the general/presidential election 😭😭😭 young people already don't vote and then to actively abstain (I get it, all your options suck) but then politicians will have zero reason to appeal to you ever! You're entirely excluding yourselves from the conversation! Vote strategically to vote OUT the worst dude but just vote fr

I know they're all doing genocide and it's fucked but like you literally are not preventing genocide by not voting you're just sitting on your hands

[mademoiselle-cookie]

I read volume 6 of Moriarty the Patriot.

The rest of that. I'll start with the simplest.

The French Revolution

I am French. I'm not going to talk about it.

This is going to piss me off.

(Here to understand)

The legend of the Lord of Crime

Is the Lord of Crime already known? Oh? Since when ? How ?

This is what I wanted to see when reading this manga. To know all the facets, strategies and consequences of Moriarty's plan. There is no slow evolution of the public becoming aware of its existence, it just appears all of a sudden.

How was this legend “born”? Has anyone noticed that awful nobles often get attacked? Are people just getting excited over what could be simple coincidences? Was it Moriarty and co. who propagated this idea in the press?

There are already bets on who will win between Sherlock (a person who exists and who has novels about him) and the "Lord of Crime" (a mere rumor). It's one thing to ask the question as a joke, it's another to gamble with money.

This is the point that makes me say Sherlock is here too soon. The time given to him should have been given to the creation of the 'Lord of Crime'.

Especially since the author does nothing except humiliate him to highlight Moriarty. This character is better than that.

Moriarty's death

The bad guy loses. In almost every story, this is how it works.

This is why it is very difficult to call them Mary-Sue even though they are very powerful and competent. First, because the threat must be credible, and second, because they are destined to fall from their pedestal. Mary-Sues don't fall.

Am I dreaming or the author made Moriarty's death a victory on his part?

Moriarty loses to Sherlock. In his arrogance, he does not suspect for a second that Sherlock could do something he had not planned, which is to say kill himself.

And Sherlock survives! Not Moriarty.

Except that here, it will no longer be a defeat. It will be a choice, a victory and a sacrifice (generally, when Mary-Sues die early, it is through sacrifice, very rarely anything else).

The manga basically buried any chance of Sherlock beating Moriarty. All he can get are meager victories.

(It's technically possible to add stakes by turning the tables, but the author has shown that he's not ready to tarnish Moriarty, especially for Sherlock.)

It's stupid that the manga sells us a duel while already revealing the winner.

Irene

So Irene Adler was just all full of bluster...

Ok. Great for our major female character I guess.

She ultimately got beaten by Sherlock Holmes - as I predicted (and as in the majority of adaptations where she appears) - BUT only after it was revealed that she was an amateur. Not even by William, but his brother.

The worst of the three options I proposed rolled into one. The only ones who emerge with their image intact are Moriarty and his gang. Again.

And really, for her to then be manipulated by Sherlock, who has been far from brilliant up to this point, just after being completely led around by the nose by Albert Moriarty and letting herself be completely dominated by him, makes her look like a huge idiot.

From the beginning, Irene had no idea what she was doing and accidentally screwed up all by herself, and the resolution is given to men who don't have a paternalistic attitude towards her at all. Very similar to the original story where 1) Irene does not create the problem 2) solves the problem on her own.

And then finally, she puts herself at the service of Moriarty. Second cliché associated with Irene which makes no sense. The only one she escapes is the romance with Sherlock, but I see that more as the author didn't want Sherlock's attention to shift away from Moriarty and the Lord of Crime.

This Irene really is not “The Woman.”

"The Woman"

Let's talk about it. This Irene does not deserve this title. It almost seems like a mockery, but given the rest of the author's work, he probably has no idea what he's talking about.

The original Irene obtains it by beating Sherlock intellectually and morally, masterfully without him realizing it.

Here, Sherlock understood that she was trying to manipulate him - he just wasn't competent/clever enough not to get trapped (even though his brother had warned him. How can such a genius not make the connection between his brother's strange warning and his next investigation? He doesn't know how to add 2+2?). He’s even the one who “saves” her*.

In the original, Irene doesn't need Sherlock to be there to make sure she's okay. She manages on her own. She creates her happy ending all by herself. Yes, she has her husband. But she doesn't need him, she loves him. If he wasn't there, she wouldn't die.

Whereas here, Irene needs Moriarty and Sherlock.

Speaking of which, from where does William Moriarty talk about “The Woman”? What does he know about them? He's a seer? He's stalking Sherlock? It's just ridiculous that he knows the impact Irene has on Sherlock. Especially since it's not deserved since she's only an amateur and not the exceptional genius like in the original.

*Sherlock is technically useless, we know that the Moriartys are nice and that Irene is safe. And seeing as Moriarty and co. knows everything Sherlock is going to do (even the fake cops) and it's not even a revelation (it's said before that they expect it), Sherlock looks stupid. Especially since he himself admits that Moriarty is stronger.

Alternately

What if Irene Adler was a neutral party after beating Sherlock AND Moriarty at their game? Both would underestimate her because she is a seemingly naive and frivolous woman. Whether they wanted to use her or get something from her, she was actually the one who used and manipulated them, and they don't find out until it's too late.

Even better if both used her to compete with each other. And in the end, both lose. It would also have had the advantage of reminding them that they are not unbeatable (ESPECIALLY Moriarty).

We could have taken the opportunity to address the problem of the place of women in the society of that time (and perhaps a little aside on theater actors because that wasn't crazy either).

We could have addressed the image of women, violence against women, sexual violence against women (the only mention in the manga is to show that the nobleman responsible for this is horrible, but it says nothing about women or the crime itself). It may be horrible, but it's a manga where a child goes out his eye with a spoon and then gets decapitated with his little sister.

We could have talked about the feminist movements that the government sought to fight and destroy.

We could have had Sherlock and Moriarty, although defenders of equality, underestimate Irene BECAUSE she is a woman, and learn the lesson at a high price.

We could have had Irene be the most intelligent character in the series, even if in the background because it's none of her business. (In Miyazaki's Sherlock, he himself says that Mrs. Hudson is the most intelligent character in the series. So it would not be a first for a side AND female character to be more intelligent than the main characters.)

Irene could be a tasty in-between Moriarty and Sherlock. She doesn't kill but has no problem being extremely manipulative and can enter into very dark areas of society. Publicly, she could give her money to artists and causes she wants to support, and in the shadows extract and exploit the powerful for her goals of equality.

Narratively, she could appear to help or give clues to the heroes without involving herself.

We could even use it for the Lord of Crime mystery:

Irene doesn't know who he is, because Moriarty uses the fact that he failed with her to hide his identity. So his embarrassing defeat isn't entirely an embarrassing defeat and there is potentially a second person who can discover his secret without him choosing to reveal it.

She knows (even if it is never explicit) because Moriarty was stupid enough to underestimate her and even if she is not interested in revealing the truth, she is a potential danger and cannot be manipulated/used like Sherlock, so Moriarty hesitates to kill an innocent woman. It would make a good moral dilemma.

It's really frustrating to see the potential of this manga being squandered at every turn because the author hasn't thought beyond “my favorite characters must be cool”. Even if it means butchering other characters

[sibyl-of-space]

was not prepared for the interview for this part time office assistant position to be that intense but i think it went well. fingies... fingies crossed.... pls........ i dont want to job hunt anymore.............

[ottisbuns]

Figuring out who is in what department is not enough I need to establish what order they joined in, what departments they have been in historically, who the other members of those departments were at the time and what their roles were in those departments.

[tam--lin]

Shout-out to the guy at the pool swimming with his hands behind his back and his ankles together. Who are you. What are you training for.