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hollowwhisperings · 2 years ago

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most security guards/cops/crims are more dangerous to themselves than to any actual threat. in the Early Years of Batman, he was a Cryptid who only appeared at night & had the Power Of Money to support said "Cryptid" status via having MUCH better tech (armour, spyware, [nightvision], training with said tech, non-lethal weapons, niche tools, etc) than everyone else. At night, with a previously scouted out map of an area & a local's familiarity with it, Batman wouldn't need to "ninja" that hard because... unless a guard's boss was SCARIER than a Bat Cryptid, they're not going to be overly invested in risking their lives (though Batman's Technical Pacifism wasn't realised until Later: I assume Gotham's medical insurance runs by North American Rules, making a "non-lethal" beatdown probs scarier to the Average Mook).

The Penguin is a Threat because out of ALL the early crime bosses of the Era where Batman Began... HIS GANG SURVIVED (as in, it didn't get disbanded or turn on itself after losing multiple arms deals/smuggling shipments/sundry criminal activities via way of Bat Cryptid). Somehow, the Penguin keeps landing back on his feet: it Varies from writer to writer but the "Modern" Penguin is one of Gotham's more "civilised" crimebosses. As opposed to the Chaotic Crime pre-Batman or the Chaotic Evil of Certain Supervillains, the Penguin is an "Organized" Crimeboss. He's dangerous because he outsurvived all his contemporaries, he has Connections & Political Influence: treating the Penguin as a threat is Only Polite, in a setting like Gotham.

...except when the Penguin is named less for his Penguin Suit and just Penguins: those penguins BLOW UP & get sent into civilian areas. The umbrella ALSO blows up. It also tends to be a machine gun &/or a Detonation Device. This is the Penguin who Danny Devito played. The Batman of that setting was also one without decades of experience & familiarity with [being a vigilante], less Paranoid and Detective-y. Just Very Camp. And, in a Camp Setting, the Penguin can AND WILL "outcamp" the guy not commiting to being a Spooky Bat Cryptid.

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.

#batman meta #the penguin #oswald cobblepot #gotham is camp #gotham is film noir #gotham is urban horror #cryptid batman #eldritch gorham #from what i know of the american states' medical system batman not killing people is scarier #i imagine bruce wayne & wayne industries give subtle subsidies for mooks with concussions #unless a supervillain is active i would assume most batfam patrols involve disarming skittish guards & looming over wouldbe assailants #most people would prefer not to do crime or at least to not get hurt by someone in full tac gear #the batman setting requires a degree of good faith bc each writer & fan interprets its themes differently #generally the batman comics are a means of asking why people do crime & whether law enforcement can ever be effective w/o societal change #the gotham central comics go into the futility of being a “good cop” in a corrupt system #one of nightwing's fights with batman was on his wanting to be a cop & thus carry a gun #bruce wayne has obvs trauma about guns & people having access to them #idk whether the batman comics have ever been able to tackle gun control outside the generic busting of weapons smuggling by gangs #but one of the key aspects of batman's mythology is NO GUNS #which remains very controversial to his primary audience #but makes batman immediately preferable to international fans who've seen marvel heroes toting firearms #peacekeepers should not be armed with deadly weapons #stealthy bat cryptid using kungfu & gratuitously niche tools > guns #duke thomas & the fox family are kind of the only black members of the batfam but it was only a matter of time #idk if duke's comics have genuinely engaged with the BLM & disarm the police discussions but both issues resonate w/ the bat mythos #i may be giving more credit to DC than it deserves esp given how easily frank miller & bat video games have yeeted pacifism away #but i would hope that BLM was inspirational to the batwriters bc it encompasses everything that the batman comics set out to challenge #albeit through the vehicle of a rich white boy w/ a retired james bond expie as his butler & caregiver #only an autistic kid would respond to childhood trauma with “become a bat cryptid” & spend a decade learning how to be just that #some people are born cryptid and others spend decades & their grandparents trustfunds learning to mimic cryptids

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cultofthepigeon · 2 months ago

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its only today that i realized i do in fact imagine any writer at DC (or marvel for that matter) who is genuinely trying to write something good, as having to go on these sort of oceans eleven james bond esq espionage ass missions, to try to sneak the Good Writing past the execs and editorial teams

#grant morrison is in the vents at dc trying to undo jenny quantums retcon #fabian niecieza in the walls of marvel in the 90s with a briefcase full of titles and bi remy labaux #reading part of the warworld comics atm and wondering how many dc snipers this fucker had to dodge #in order to let superman cry #comics #tom kings on the top the baxter building a four freedoms plaza just ordering air strikes on anyone who writes something #mildly anti imperialist #i know its all very mundane actually irl but #you know this is where my headspace is

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greenandsorrow · 5 months ago

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Not a request, but can you make a list of the fandoms and characters you write for? Not to be rude! <333

Disclaimer -> There are fandoms I've already written stuff for, or I will in the future, but they're not in the following list because I don't take requests for them (the Matrix, Prometheus, DC, Marvel, etc.) There's no particular reason, I just don't feel like it.

character x reader only, unless I say otherwise (Be as creative or as specific as you wish with the reader. Your request = your personal treat!)

FANDOMS & CHARACTERS I WRITE FOR -alphabetical order

DEAD POETS SOCIETY:

Neil Perry

Todd Anderson

Charlie Dalton

The poets x reader

Mr. Keating (platonic!)

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S:

William Afton (either from the game or the book trilogy, not movie Willy -still love him tho)

Springtrap

The Puppet

Comfortingly scary stuff with the animatronics of the first six games.

GAME OF THRONES:

Petyr Baelish

Varys (don't ask me why, probs platonic?)

Jorah Mormont

Sandor Clegane

Brienne of Tarth

maybe Arya Stark (for smut only S8)

maybe Eddard Stark

maybe Tormund Giantsbane

GILMORE GIRLS:

Luke Danes

Michel Gerard

The reader being a citizen of Stars Hollow/ Scenarios that include multiple characters

GRAVITY FALLS:

Stanley and Stanford are the only two characters that smut is permitted (even threesomes)

The reader being part of the town/ Scenarios that include multiple characters

HAZBIN HOTEL:

Alastor (human, giant demon, cursed cat, something from your imagination)

Lucifer Morningstar

Angel Dust

Vox

Sir Pentious (can be shipped with Cherri)

The Hazbins x reader

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON:

Rhaenyra Targaryen

Daemon Targaryen

Aemond Targaryen

Aegon Targaryen

Scenarios that include multiple characters

?Dragon bonding¿

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE:

Anything that you desire

IT:

Pennywise

Not sure about any other ships but shoot your shot ig

The reader being a citizen of Derry/ Scenarios that include multiple characters

LEE JINUK:

Pyeon Sang-Wook (and I'm open to writing for Sweet Home in general)

Player 246

LOTR/ THE HOBBIT:

Bilbo Baggins

Thorin Oakenshield

Fili Durin

Kili Durin

Thranduil

Gandalf x reader (platonic!!)

Thorin & company x reader

The fellowship x reader

Sauron in any form

The Witch King of Angmar (🤭)

OMORI:

I'M NOT AGING ANYONE UP FOR SMUT/ I WON'T PUT ANYONE IN SEXUAL SITUATIONS (aging up for character development is acceptable ig).

Omori (can be shipped with Aubrey)

Sunny (can be shipped with Aubrey/Basil)

Stranger

Basil

The group x reader

The reader just experiencing or being part of Headspace, Black Space, White Space and the characters there.

PEDRO PASCAL:

Joel Miller

Din Djarin

RYAN GOSLING:

Ken

Officer K

Sierra Six/ Court Gentry

Colt Seavers

SHERLOCK BBC:

Sherlock Holmes (platonic mostly)

John Watson

maybe James Moriarty

maybe Molly Hooper

SQUID GAME 2:

The Front Man/ Player 001

Player 246

Thanos

The Salesman

Hit me up with anyone from S2 actually. Men and women.

Scenarios that include multiple characters.

STAR WARS:

the whole Skywalker bloodline

Han Solo

Ahsoka Tano

Captain Rex

Obi wan Kenobi

General Grievous

Darth Maul

Darth Malgus

Din Djarin

Captain Phasma

Some droid fluff

Don't limit yourself since there's a good chance I forgot someone

STRANGER THINGS:

Billy Hargrove

Eddie Munson

Jim Hopper (don't ask why)

Vecna/ Henry Creel

The reader being a citizen of Hawkins/ Scenarios that include multiple characters

THE DA VINCI CODE:

Silas

THE SECRET HISTORY:

Anything

Absolutely anyone

I mean it

(no incest, no orgies/ threesomes)

WIZARDING WORLD:

While I don't deny my love for HP since I grew up with it, I want you to know this is a safe place.

Any Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts character

Scenarios that include multiple characters

masterlist of all work

requesting rules/ info

*my paypal link can be found on my masterlist & fics

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years ago

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To be confronted with a blank page is not very nice. But Hemingway, a great American writer, taught me the finest trick when you are doing a long book, which is, he simply said in his own words, “When you are going good, stop writing.” And that means that if everything’s going well and you know exactly where the end of the chapter’s going to go and you know just what the people are going to do, you don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? And you get up and you walk away and you don’t want to come back because you don’t know where you want to go. But if you stop when you are going good, as Hemingway said…then you know what you are going to say next. You make yourself stop, put your pencil down and everything, and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next and that’s lovely and you have to try and do that. Every time, every day all the way through the year. If you stop when you are stuck, then you are in trouble!”

- Roald Dahl

No one can uncover the circumstances behind why this picture of Roald Dahl and Ernest Hemingway was taken, other than it was in London during the Second World War. Hemingway found himself in Europe from June-December 1944 in his capacity as a war journalist.

Roald Dahl was commissioned into the Royal Air Force and was a frontline fighter pilot showing tremendous courage and bravery and who eventually rose to the rank of wing commander. His flying days came to a premature end after a crash landing that nearly cost him his life. Between 1939-1941 Dahl was the assistant air attache in Washington DC and moved around in those diplomatic and political circles hoping to get some inside information and intelligence on America’s intentions and plans with regarding the war in Europe. Bored by his work he fell into the murky world of intelligence and became part of a Brirish spy ring called ‘The Irregulars’ which included the future James Bond author Ian Fleming. His spy work chiefly consisted of mobilising American opinion. This was at a time when Britain stood alone against the expected Nazi invasion and Britain was hoping to the USA would enter the conflict and thus tilt the balance.

When this photo was taken Dahl was a mere 28 years old and Hemingway was 45 years old. The picture doesn’t really do justice to how tall both men were with Hemingway being 6 feet tall but towered over by Dahl’s 6’6” wiry frame. Clearly Hemingway was already a celebrated author with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls already published. Dahl, by contrast, hadn’t written anything significant yet - like his friend and colleague Ian Fleming - other than his children’s book, The Gremlins, in 1943.

It’s speculative to imagine that Dahl, the inventive intelligence officer and aspiring author, somehow contrived a meeting with the old lion, hoping to get some writing tips.

Photo: Roald Dahl and Ernest Hemingway in London during 1944.

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justsomerandomfanfic · 2 years ago

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I implore those who see this post, to check out these fabulous creators, give them love!

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zorilleerrant · 6 months ago

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BANG BANG BANG

10 13 & 16

You said specifics last time so DC pwease

10. worst part of fanon

Don't get me wrong, I like a butch lady, but I don't know why everyone wants to make Cass so gender non-conforming. (I mean. I do know why.) In canon she leans heavily into high fashion aesthetic. Some of that reads a little more masculine these days than when they were drawn, but, like, not that much more masculine? And even when they are, they're paired with things that, if anything, read even more feminine now than at the time.

She loves her girly clothes! She loves cutesy fun soft things! She loves bright colors! Her casual clothes are the opposite of her costume, and that's by design! Her attraction to ballet as an artform is a visual struggle between her desire to look feminine and the fact that she never got a chance to do that in her childhood, while she was forcibly degendered by a white man, and then infantilized by everyone else around her. People cite that one picture of her in a tux, and it's like, that's because she's imagining herself as James Bond, and also, femme tuxes are a recent fashion trend.

If you want butch/femme StephCass, which, like, you also don't actually need one of each, why don't you butch up Steph? She wears a lot of androgynous or masculine clothing, and not that much super feminine clothing, and she doesn't like dressing up which you can easily read as a gender presentation thing. Steph can be butch and Cass can be femme and I never see it.

Cass isn't gender non-conforming! She's definitely not gender non-conforming enough to call herself a man! She'd be Batwoman if she took on the role, not Batman!

13. worst blorboficiation

Damian. I get projecting on him and using him to deal with all your personal issues, and that's fine, since he's basically a self-insert in the first place (with all love to Grant; they did a wonderful job). I expect a fair amount of variability in characterization and even think it's kind of fun, because as a kid/teen, he should be trying out lots of different looks and attitudes and interests. So, you know, the people who lean hard into Stabby Baby Loves Stabbing or Tortured Assassin Renounces Assassinry don't bother me.

...but you don't have to make it so flat. I swear, so many of them just avoid ever having any conflict in his personality. And he's a conflicted character! That's the joy of him! Whatever his conflicts are about can change, but he's the kind of character who thinks a lot about things and then can't decide exactly how he feels. He's done things he's not proud of, he wants to do things but he's not sure how, he does things the best way he can but he makes mistakes. People make him 100% right or 100% wrong and that's not how people are, not even when they're kids. Or they make all the conflicts romantic.

I feel this is especially true of him as a background character where people feel like they need to include him just because he's a Robin or whatever. So they go, oh, hey, his fans used this keyword, and then put him in doing that thing in the background. And people who like him eat it up! And I just feel like, if you don't like a character, don't include them, that's fine. But I also feel like, if you do like a character... have some standards, idk.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Character bashing. People just caricature that character's traits to make them more evil and hateful and like, why? I either already hated them, so you don't need to do that, or I didn't hate them, and now I'm wondering if you're alright there, buddy. And then they go and torture the character a whole bunch.

And it's just... if bad things happen to a character, maybe I do want to see that. I'm not immune to hating characters! I want Steve Trevor dumped in a ditch! But the joy of it would be that they're characterized well, but all the other characters hate them for the same reason I hate them. And then bad things happen, but they make sense in the context of the plot and the world.

Also when you have other characters be like 'haha let's torture this person' I'm sort of like. Okay but that's not very nice and now you're making the characters I like seem like, at best, assholes, and at worst... sometimes adult characters will torture a kid character that the author doesn't like, and, I mean, I get it, catharsis, but I'm still going to be like 'Batman why are you a bad person now' if I see that happening. I make actual faces at the words.

#look i said something

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randomestfandoms-ocs · 1 year ago

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Red White And Royal Blue OC Masterlist

Name: Abigail Claremont-Diaz

Story: Miss Americana

Face Claim: Zion Moreno

Love Interest: Bea Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

For all that Abigail Claremont-Diaz wanted to build a name for herself outside of being First Daughter Of The United States, she also couldn’t imagine her life without the past four years. Without her daily commute from the White House to the GWU campus, without the secret service always a step behind her, without the beautiful, bustling streets of DC to call her own. She missed Texas, it would always hold a special place in her heart, but she couldn’t imagine life if she’d never left. She certainly couldn’t imagine her life if she’d never started dating the Prince of Wales — although did it count as dating if her eyes always strayed to his sister? Abi had spent four years building her perfect life under the microscope of Capitol Hill but, much like a £75,000 wedding cake, her twin brother’s lack of impulse control and obsession with her boyfriend had to send it crashing down around her.

Name: Caroline Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: Sweet Caroline

Face Claim: Sabrina Carpenter

Love Interest: Oliver Cochrane

Caroline Henrietta Alexandria Theresa Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor. Princess of Wales. Britain’s sweetheart, the tragic princess. If her life were her own, maybe Caroline could have followed her dreams, could have followed her father’s footsteps and become an actress, the first female James Bond. But her life belonged to crown and country, and Caroline’s free will only extended far enough to choose which media smile to use on any given day. Caroline Fox had dreams, hopes, ambitions, secrets. Princess Caroline was just a doll, a piece in her grandmother’s never ending game of chess. This time, Caroline’s job was simple: to clean up the mess caused by her older brother and her dearest friend, to make the so-called Cakegate look like a silly misstep between best friends and not like an international incident that could determine the fate of American politics for the next four years and beyond. In theory, it shouldn’t have been too hard, after all, Henry and Alex were quite possibly her two favourite people in the world, and Caroline had never not been able to charm her way out of trouble. The only problem is that her grandmother’s plan involves a staging a relationship and eventually an engagement, possibly even another royal wedding. The only problem is that this relationship would be between Caroline herself and Alex Claremont-Diaz. The only problem is that Caroline knows that Henry has been in love with Alex for the past four years.

Name: Cate Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: Diamond Eyes

Face Claim: Liz Gillies

Love Interest: June Claremont-Diaz & Nora Holleran

Cate should have been the future queen of England. And, if The Succession to the Crown Act had been enacted retroactively, then she would have finally been ahead of Philip in the line of succession. But no, despite being the firstborn, Cate would only ever be third in line, a pretty face with no real power. While Philip would train to one day rule a country, Cate would be left to pick up the pieces of their broken family. A mother, lost to her grief, oblivious to the four children who still needed her. A sister, lost to her addiction, numbing herself to the world by any means possible. One brother lost to the crown, only a vessel to their grandmother’s desires. Another brother, just lost, hollow behind the mask he always wore. And Cate, alone in every crowded room, a picture perfect princess to be parade around while her family fell apart, trying desperately to help but unable to do anything but watch her family break before her eyes.Enter Alex Claremont-Diaz.

Name: Christian Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: History Has Its Eyes On You

Face Claim: Kit Connor

Christian Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor loved Emilia Harper Claremont Diaz. He did, really, just not in the way that he was supposed to. He adored her, she was tied with Henry and Bea as his favourite people in the world, and he didn’t think he would ever love or trust anyone as much as her. But he wasn’t in love with her.But princes weren’t allowed to be gay, and Christian wasn’t brave enough to stand up to Mary or her ever-increasing pressure for Christian to propose. A life with Harper wasn’t the worst thing he could imagine – really, it felt like the best he could ever hope for. Until Henry starts sneaking around with Harper’s brother and, for the first time, Christian can see the possibility of a life beyond just settling.

Name: Cleopatra Okonjo

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Savannah Lee Smith

Name: Danielle Walters

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Leighton Meester

Name: Eileen Eisner

Story: Come On Eileen

Face Claim: Lily Collins

Love Interest: Flynn Caldwell

There was very little that Eileen Eisner wouldn’t do for Bea Fox. Not for Princess Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, but for Bea. Her roommate in rehab, her best friend, the only person who cared more about Eileen as a person than as a list of IMDB credits. So when Bea asked her to attend Philip’s wedding for emotional support, she did it. When Bea asked her to drop a couple of strategic comments about the supposed friendship between Prince Henry and the First Son, she did it. When Bea asks her to fake date Henry to help hide his relationship with the very same First Son, well… she’s already in this deep.

Name: Estelle Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Tilly Keeper

Name: Flynn Caldwell

Story: Come On Eileen

Face Claim: Timothee Chalamet

Love Interest: Eileen Eisner

Name: Fraser Montgomery

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Andrew Garfield

Love Interest: Alex Claremont-Diaz & Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Name: Genevieve Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: Rise And Fall Of A British Princess

Face Claim: Hannah Dodd

Princess Genevieve Eleanor Grace Eugenie Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor was perfect, that’s what everyone always told her. But it was easy to appear perfect when she only had to smile and stay quiet, never showing anyone what was behind the mask. Paralyzing anxiety, scars on the palms of her hands in the shape of her fingernails, panic attacks in bathrooms, a top secret crush on Alexander Claremont-Diaz. But no one ever looked past the charming smiles, so no one would ever know the truth behind Genevieve Fox. Until Alexander shoves Henry into Philip’s wedding cake, and the eyes of the world turn to her family – something she has experienced since the day she was born and still, so different than ever before, and it’s all Genevieve can do to keep her mask in place and keep the rest of herself hidden away.

Name: Harper Claremont-Diaz

Story: History Has Its Eyes On You

Face Claim: Rachel Zegler

Emilia Harper Claremont-Diaz could not wait for the day that her mother was no longer president. Of course she was proud – really, she was – and of course she wantedher mom to beat Jeffery Richards of all people, but she was tired. Tired of being the First Daughter; “America’s Princess” as they called her. Tired of having the eyes of the world on her; tired of her life belonging to everyone but her. She knew that she would never know real anonymity again, especially for as long as she was believed to be dating Christian Fox — that is, Prince Christian Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor – but it would be better. It had to be better. It might have been better, if Alex hadn’t shoved Prince Henry into a cake at the biggest wedding of the century.

Name: Isabel Luna

Story: We Built This City

Face Claim: Ana De Armas

Frankly, the entire goddamn country should feel grateful that Isabel Luna loves Alex Claremont-Diaz as much as she does. She wouldn’t be stepping back from her beloved — and well earned, no nepotism required — job as her older brother’s chief of staff to babysit just any First Child for the entire year leading up to Ellen’s reelection. But it was Alex. Alex, who she’d known for pretty much ever. Alex, who she’d comforted through his first heartbreak. Who she’d given his very first shot of tequila, who she’d mentored when they worked together on Raf’s campaign. Alex, who was her brother just as much as Rafael. And it was for Ellen — and maybe Isa wasn’t as close to her as she was to Oscar, but Ellen had always been an inspiration to her and she would do whatever it took to ensure that she beat Richards in the election. Besides, she’d been babysitting Alex since he was a pubescent little shit, she was probably the most qualified person to wrangle him around for the next year. Honestly, preventing another Cakegate level international incident should have been easy; if only Alex hadn’t decided to fall in love - and bed - with the Prince of Wales.

Name: Josephine Fitzroy

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Phoebe Dynevor

Name: Juliet Fox

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Zoey Deutch

Name: Kennedy Quinlan

Story: Winding Roads

Face Claim: Ashley Benson

Kennedy Quinlan couldn’t remember a time before Alex Claremont-Diaz. The three musketeers, along with their other best friend Liam, they’d been inseparable since pre-school. For well over a decade, they had done everything together. And yes, Kennedy had known that graduation would change everything, but she hadn’t expected this. With Ellen winning her election, Alex no longer had a reason to return to Austin. With Kennedy on the road, following wherever the rodeo circuit led, she never had time to visit either boy. And Liam, well, she wasn’t sure what had happened, but he had completely ghosted. Without her best friends to ground her, Kennedy lost herself in her horses. No other life, no other interests, being “Rodeo Barbie” had become her life, not just her job. That was all that she was. Until the fall.Injured, untethered, with no idea who or what she wanted to be if she wasn’t a rodeo star, Kennedy had no idea what was supposed to come next. Until Mama Ellen offered her an internship under Zahra Bankston, a home within the White House, and some semblance of direction in her life. But Kennedy is no longer the girl she’d once been, and Alex is no longer the boy she once knew, and one way or another, the impending election was going to force Kennedy to figure out who exactly she is.

Name: London Carter

Story: Closer To Fine

Face Claim: Emily Alyn Lind

London Carter had plans. She had plans for graduating Magna Cum Laude with a double major in political science and international relations. She had plans to work on Ellen Claremont’s reelection campaign, to help make another four years of Claremont-Holleran a reality. She had plans for winning her senate seat, and for becoming Secretary of State. She had plans to be Vice President in the Claremont-Diaz Carter administration of 2032-2040 alongside her best friend, FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz. Her plans did not include Alex causing an international incident with the Prince Of England. Her plans also did not include having to use every bit of her upcoming international relations degree to clean up his mess. And her plans definitely did not include Alex falling in love with said Prince Of England, especially in the middle of Ellen’s reelection.

Name: Lucy Kent

Story: Lucy In The Sky

Face Claim: Maude Apatow

Being Zahra Bankston wasn’t easy, but Lucy Kent was doing her best. Trained by the Chief of Staff herself, Lucy’s world revolved around protecting the interests of the White House Trio. Curating flawless public images and beloved social media presences, keeping them eternally on track and on schedule for their endless responsibilities, being their dearest friend and closest confidante, Lucy did it all and made it look effortless. And of course, the most challenging part of her job: keeping Alex from causing international scandals. Lucy thought that she was doing a pretty good job, all things considered. Until Cakegate. Not only does Lucy have to coordinate a fake friendship between Alex and Prince Henry, but now she has to somehow also cover up the biggest relationship scandal of the century. Being Zahra Bankston wasn’t easy, but Lucy Kent was doing her best.

Name: Madison Richards

Story: All-American Bitch

Face Claim: Madelaine Petsch

Aside from her general and entirely justified dislike for her father, Madison Richards had several other issues with his plan for her to – in his words – seduce the youngest British prince and steal the trade deal out from President Claremont. To start, judging by the fact that he had never once attempted to sneak a glance down her dresses, Madison suspected that she was far from Prince Henry’s type. Furthermore, his plan failed to consider the fact that she had spent the whole campaign trail so far sneaking around for clandestine hookups with Alex Claremont-Diaz, the First Son himself. And, last but certainly not least, her father still had no idea that she had spent her entire time in rehab sleeping with the Prince’s older sister. But then again, getting herself in close quarters with the Prince and Princess of Wales and the First Son could only help in her own plan: to do whatever it takes to stop her father from getting elected.

Name: Marcie Turner

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Zendaya

Name: Margaret Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Story: Heartbreak Princess

Face Claim: Florence Pugh

Love Interest: Pez Ojonjo

Where Henry was the Prince Of England’s Hearts, Margaret had always been the Heartbreak Princess. Filling the void left by her father’s death with a string of meaningless flings, Margaret had never been anything but completely transparent about what she was looking for: a distraction. Not love, never love, but a way to pass the time in between Bea’s breakdowns, Mary’s lectures, and trying to draw Henry out of his shell. But when Henry falls into a cake, and a torrid romance, with the American First Son, Margaret finds herself swept up in an international whirlwind as she tries desperately to protect her twin brother’s heart — only to realize that in doing so, she may have left her own heart far more open than she’d ever intended.

Name: Oliver Cochrane

Story: Sweet Caroline

Face Claim: Thomas Doherty

Love Interest: Caroline Fox

Oliver Cochrane’s reputation preceded him. The openly pansexual son of two obnoxiously wealthy and even more famous parents, the notorious party boy who had been best friends with Prince Henry and Pez Okonjo all through Eaton and Oxford, the bane of Queen Mary’s existence. But there was more to him than what the tabloids saw. A heart of gold, undying loyalty, the best friend anyone could ask for, and painfully in love with Princess Caroline. He treasured his friendship with Caroline and would never make his feelings her problem, always her shoulder to lean on, one of the only people that she could be Caroline Fox with, instead of Princess Caroline. Not only did Oliver know that Caroline’s relationship with Alex Claremont-Diaz was fake, but he also knew which Fox sibling was actually in love with the First Son. But with all eyes on the Princess and the First Son, Oliver’s own feelings might not be able to stay a secret forever.

Name: Sofía Diaz

Story: Untitled

Face Claim: Isabela Merced

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Robot Chicken #64: “They Took My Thumbs” | December 14, 2008 - 11:30PM | S04E02

I forget if I discussed the gimmick of this season's episode titles, so I'll do it here, possibly redundantly. They titled each episode so that if you were to sequence them in production order (like how they usually appear on DVD), the resulting list of episode names will spell out a cohesive message. That way, when you buy the DVD, the episodes will be listed in production order, resulting in the pay-off.

This episode felt like it had fewer sketches than most, meaning there was an emphasis on longer sketches with only a handful of channel-change gags or shorties. The first one is about the contractor building the dungeon trap from the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The joke being that it’s silly and doesn’t make a whole lotta sense. Also the contractor sorta got a little too creative vs. what was actually asked of him. This one is decent, basically on par with an average SNL sketch. Actually now I’m recalling sketch where Christopher Walken plays Blofield, and James Bond shows up to his liar unexpectedly ahead of schedule and he has to apologize for the construction going on. This is different enough for me not to be pissed at it. Also the Walken sketch sucks.

Next is Train Man, about a guy who gets squished by the Subway and must live the rest of his life being squished, for if they move the train it will cause his organs to fall out of his body and he’ll die. He spends his lifetime being a businessman and ignoring his wife and kids. There’s a guitar song that goes along with it. I guess this one alludes to an old urban legend. I don’t know man, I didn’t get much out of this one.

The next sketch is about Jason Vorhees leading a boring life of quiet domesticity, but he eagerly awaits Friday the 13th so he can go out on have a killing spree. This one is fine, I guess, but the premise is faulty. I am pretty sure Jason doesn’t care about the actual day he kills people. This MF would kill on Talk Like A Pirate Day if he felt like it. And he should!

You see, I wrote the joke “this MF would kill on ____ if he felt like it” and that’s what I came up with. Sorta low-hanging fruit. I could’ve gone with something edgier, like my birthday. Can you imagine bad stuff happening on my birthday? People wouldn’t be able to say “happy birthday” to me. This is the saddest thing I can think of right now!

Wildman is a sketch where kids are persuaded by one of their mothers to go swimming instead of cooping themselves up playing video games. She’s helped along by Wildman, a kid-friendly “outrageous” rocker whose advice gets preachier and lamer. The kids become disillusioned with Wildman, who doesn’t seem all that wild to them any more. The final gag is Wildman departing with a message against gay marriage. This one’s decent, too. Not mad at it! Wildman is voiced by Sebastian Bach, and he gives an great performance.

The final sketch is Bring A Sidekick to Work day, which is a bunch of lame riffs on DC Comics heroes being lads with each other. Sebastian Bach voices Martian Manhunter in this one, which was a little surprising to learn. The Robot Chicken crew have said in one of the few audio commentary tracks I listened to that when they get a guest star, they typically have them voice three different voices. Usually it’s obvious, like when you have somebody like Keith Crawford voicing a doctor. According to the wiki, this sketch was co-written by Geoff Johns, a guy whose name I’ve seen on DC comics before.

I’d call this one slightly stronger than most Robot Chickens, but I am very tired of sketches where Superheroes are horny. Just knock that shit off. All of them retain their semen, or have been chemically castrated as ordered by a judge. Sorry, I’m a stickler for this sort of thing.

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The Anglo-Zionist political establishment is doing all in its power to control Donald Trump, even to the extent of sabotaging the possibility of peace in the world. Trump is playing along in some respects, yet keeping his cards close to the vest in other respects. We’re left waiting, much as Putin seems to be waiting—not allowing provocations to lead him out onto a limb. These are scary times, with the real actors concealing themselves from We the People. It takes quite a feat of imagination to pretend that America is still any sort of constitutional republic. The controllers are so much in control that they remain unnamed. But there’s a bright

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII "Joe Biden is, like, dead. Not literally. Like, he, like, can't say a sentence," admits Henry Appel, advisor at the National Security Council (NSC), about the current state of the President’s health. Appel, who works in the Intelligence Programs Directorate, noted his team's responsibility for providing senior policymakers with top secrets, stating, "We give all of the senior policymakers all of the secrets." He went on to describe Biden’s deteriorating communication skills as a concern, adding, "[Biden] can't say a sentence." Recalling a phone call in which the President struggled to understand the simple phrase, “novel phenomenon,” Appel shared "He [Biden] was just like, 'What do you mean, like a book?' when my boss [Jake Sullivan] used the word 'novel.'” Appel didn't stop there; he also recounted an exchange from a call with @JoeBiden, revealing, “I picked up the phone and said, 'Hello, Mr. President'... and he asked for Jake [Sullivan]. After a brief exchange, Biden called me back 10 seconds later asking again, ‘Is Jake there?’” Appel told Biden, “No, he's traveling with you,” adding, “He's on the same trip that you are.” Appel also described his perspective on the results of @realDonaldTrump’s 2024 election victory, stating that White House officials felt “trauma-bonded" after the election, adding, “We're also all kind of concerned about them [Trump Administration] coming after us.” @JakeSullivan46 @NSC_Spox @POTUS @KamalaHarris @VP 1:11 PM · Dec 16, 2024

Yeah, so maybe these creeps (yes, I try to keep this family friendly) should be concerned that someone will be coming after them—for their part in perpetrating a hoax of this sort on the American people. Then again, how many votes did Zhou and Kama Sutra legitimately garner? That’s scary, too.

Remember. This situation is NOT a surprise to any DC insiders—including GOP establishment figures like senators and the former AG, Bluto Barr. They knew what they were handing the American people over to when they stabbed the nation in the back.

Meanwhile …

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FEARLESS FRANK (1965/1968), DIR. P. KAUFMAN

"Imagine how perplexing 1967's Casino Royale would be in a world where James Bond never sipped a martini. Imagine watching 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie without ever seeing Mike, Carol, and the kids on television. Consider for a moment how strange The Monkees would look if The Beatles never made it out of Liverpool. Finally, imagine Fearless Frank without the iconic comic of the same name. What's that, you're not familiar with Fearless Frank? Don't worry -- nobody else is, either. Fearless Frank is that strangest of beasts, a camp parody of a character that never existed. This is Adam West's Batman in a world without DC. " -- David Eschatfische

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Weekend Top Ten #570

Top Ten Couples in Comics

Ah, love is in the air. Sort of. Soon-ish. Yes, it’s not technically anywhere near Valentine’s Day yet, but a confluence of other stuff in my life has made me dedicate this weekend to good old Cupid and his ruddy bloody arrows.

So a couple of years ago, around about now-ish, I was banging on something rotten about superhero romantic couples, but focusing solely on adaptations thereof. It was movie (and TV I guess) versions of superhero romances that flew backwards round my particular world. Now I’m returning to that well with a vengeance, as I discuss actual comic book incarnations of superheroes, and their respective squeezes.

I think it’s obvious what’s going to come highly here, as there’s at least one superhero romantic pairing that’s so iconic it transcends the very medium; there have been at least two live-action TV series with the characters names together in the title. The first “modern” superhero movie literally hung the story around the romance – including the world-spinning finale. And, yeah, quite a few more are fairly obvious I guess. But there are some that might be less iconic, less all-encompassing (although I imagine if we give James Gunn a couple of years these could all be household names); it’s an idiosyncratic list that, once again, reflects my particular tastes and thirty-odd years of reading history.

I’ve gone, here, for couples that I think work well together for one reason or another. And they’re couples that I’ve actually, y’know, read; not just those that exist in the atmosphere. I’ve tried to cast my net as broadly as possible but at the same time, if you’re aiming for superheroes, chances are you’re going to catch a lot of DC and Marvel characters. Which is fine! Those guys are totally iconic.

Anyway, with no further ado, let’s kick off the season of love by celebrating fictional super-people and their significant others.

Superman and Lois Lane: who else? They’re perfect together: a man with all the power in the world who only uses it to protect and inspire others; and a woman dedicated to finding and protecting the truth at all costs. She’s tough, he’s gentle, despite him being the strong one. Whether it’s the initial dynamic of Lois wanting Superman and ignoring Clark, or more modern stories where it’s Clark she falls in love with, or any variation in between, they’ve been doing this dance for eighty years. So strong is their bond, so well do they fit together, so iconic is their pairing, that nowadays it’d be weird if they weren’t presented as a couple; it didn’t take too long after the New 52 reboot undid their marriage for them to wind up not only back together again but with a child, to boot.

Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson: pretty much the whole time I ever read comics, Peter and MJ were a couple, if not married; as such, I find it really, really weird that they got magically un-married. Because they’re so great together, the teenage melodrama of their love playing out in tragi-adventurous fashion. MJ, groovy party girl, wannabe model, shows her strength and compassion when she comforts Peter after Gwen’s death; and, as they become close and fall in love, quiet nerd Peter comes out of his shell. They’re there for each other from their teenage years and you really get the feeling no one knows either of them so well. And the future-set stories, where they’re married with a superpowered daughter, are terrific too.

Batman and Catwoman: whilst nowadays this seems equally as inevitable as Lois and Clark, it’s actually a relationship that’s evolved over time. Catwoman started out as more of a femme fatale; sure, there was an attraction, but Bruce was given “proper” love interests for years, from Silver St. Cloud to Vikki Vale. But there’s just something about Selina. And really it makes sense; Bruce definitely has a dark side, so him being drawn to a Bad Girl, seeing the good inside her, and how he helps bring that to the surface without totally switching her to the straight and narrow… whether they actually end up together or are doomed to forever be apart, they’re perfect. And let’s face it, they’re just both super, super sexy.

Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon: no codenames here because it’s a love that transcends secret identities; Robin and Batgirl? Nightwing and Oracle? Bats and Babs? Like Peter and MJ, they’re a couple of kids, best friends who played out together at night, and then grew up and fell in love. I like that they had lives away from each other – Dick went off with the Titans and had another relationship; Babs pursued a career and overcame disability – but they come back together. There’s something so true and honest about the pair of them, and their relationship together, that makes them a perfect couple, even though part of that knowledge is that they probably can’t really make a go of it, not now, not at the moment.

Cyclops and Jean Grey: so much of their relationship is based around how it ended, but I still like them as a couple. It’s a bit weird, looking back decades later, how quickly some of the Sixties characters accelerated into middle-age, but I always think of Scott and Jean as like the X-Men’s mum and dad. They were a seemingly happy married couple, with just a touch of the usual Marvel angst; until she died, of course, in massively iconic fashion. In fact, it’s partly this tragedy – and how it effected both of them, with Jean’s weird resurrections and Scott’s batshit reactions – that partly defines their relationship.

The Elongated Man and Sue Dibny: I first came across this couple, and their adorable rock-solid relationship, when Sue was horribly murdered in the controversial Identity Crisis (a book which, weirdly, was basically my gateway to the wider DC Universe). Having read more about them, they’ve got serious couple goals: solid, dependable, best friends. I like how Sue totally supports Ralph’s super-heroing, but is more than just a hanger-on, becoming an integral part of the various books the Elongated Man was involved in. Even their deaths didn’t slow them down, as they popped up as ghosts – still together, of course.

Superboy and Wonder Girl: I was never a fan of attempts to match up Superman and Wonder Woman, but their Teen Titans analogues were a different kettle of Thanagarian Snare Beasts. Their slow-burning romance was the stuff of teen drama serials, as they bottle battled personal demons that got in the way of their feelings. They finally consummated things in the series Infinite Crisis, just before Superboy heroically died saving the multiverse; but this added extra wrinkles, as we saw the effect his death had not just on Wonder Girl but also Robin, and how it played into his (inevitable, this is comics) resurrection.

Green Arrow and Black Canary: some couples are soulmates; some are doomed, tragic romances; some are booty calls. And then there’s Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance. For decades now, they’ve bounced off and around one another, an all-time perfect romantic couple, a bickering, back-and-forth Eighties action movie pairing. They’ve fought and argued and – well – done other stuff, and it’s like a Shane Black exploding into When Harry Met Sally. They’re star-crossed lovers who are also often very cross. And, I’ve gotta say, there’s something just really sexy about the pair of them. I blame his beard. And her fishnets.

Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman: some of the characters in this list are married couples, but they’ve also spent a lot of time, well, not married – or even not together at all. Not so Reed and Sue: yes, of course, they weren’t married when they debuted at the very dawn of the MCU in 1962, but for the bulk of their history they’ve been married. And despite the likes of Doom and Namor trying to muscle in, they’ve been happily married for the most part – having a couple of super-powered kids. But they compliment each other so well: he’s an absent-minded genius, she’s phenomenally capable and arguably even more powerful, and there’s no sense that they don’t love and trust each other completely, even though they’re different in many ways. God, I can’t wait to see them on screen. Er, again.

Rocket Raccoon and Lylla Otter: maybe this one is entirely me; and unlike some of the other longer-running couples, really these two were only together in one mini-series forty years ago. But I like them! He’s a dashing adventurer; she’s the heir to a toy-making dynasty. Together, they battle nefarious, corrupt toymakers, try to avoid Lylla getting married, and cure a bunch of humans of insanity, all the while making weird refences to the Beatles’ song Rocky Raccoon. It’s incredibly strange and I adore it. And they do make a cute couple; there’s a bit of Han and Leia about them, and they go for nice picnics and cavort about in streams and suchlike. The Rocket presented here is very different from the one who became famous in the movies – and, indeed, quite a bit different from when the character became a member of the comic book Guardians too. Speaking of which, Lylla makes her big-screen debut this year in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and as a long-time fan, I cannot wait.

Feel a bit bad that I didn’t find room for any of the cool same-sex couples in comics, like Apollo and Midnighter or Hulkling and Wiccan. This is because, basically, I just haven’t really read enough comics about them I guess. But the latter two guys are an incredibly cute couple who very, very nearly made the list!

Anyway, Happy Valentine’s Day. Er, a week from now. Yay!

#top ten #comics #couples #valentines day #romance #superheroes #dc #marvel #mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it #but a kiss can be deadlier if you mean it

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