#letters page

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Flash-Grams - The Flash letters page header from June 1983. DC Comics.

[therealfelicia]

The "two coins" meme, but it's about podcasts where two hosts tell you stories from works of media that doesn't exist, be they movies continuing the Dark Universe franchise (after Universal gave up on it) or imaginary comic books based on a real card game.

(and both got me really invested in their characters)

[nielsthecat]

4 8 9 12 noriko or karl valley or both

nori and then karl! smiles

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

Hm... I've been reading a lot of Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, and I think it'd be interesting to see Nori in that! Honestly I have thought about it a bit and I think she'd have been born in a lightning world and cast out for ??? reasons.

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Giving her short hair. Like, a pixie cut or shorter. Or in general masculinizing her. I think she's very feminine, she just wears pants.

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

Abso fucking lutely not. I know in my heart that she only sleeps for 2 hours at a time, if that, and as we all know she's VERY temperamental. Also, she plays her music without headphones and while she'd pretend to be okay with turning it off when I ask because I get headaches, she'd actually be very annoyed.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

She's transgender.

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

This isn't another media per se but I think Karl would be an EXCELLENT vampire hunter. He already dresses like one and he still gets to kill people (he's not giving that up).

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Um. There isn't a Karl fandom. I guess calling him younger than Jean-Paul--we don't have confirmed ages there, but I personally think Karl is older. However, since they met at like, 30-ish, a younger/older sibling dynamic can't even come into play, so it doesn't hugely matter IMO.

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

I am not living with a Catholic.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

He's transgender.

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[eliah]

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

This is an interesting use of a letters page...

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

[rendevok]

“Take my hand” pages 5-11

1 - day 2 - truth - 3

[luclipse85art]

Husk Flustering The Hell Outta Angel Dust, Pages 6 & 7

Husk being real with Angel, and Angel just malfunctioning and loving it!

[alena-draws]

Can you tell I love this guy?

(I'll delete this little edit later, but: I'm still selling prints, among them Trigun stuff, so check out this list if this might be smth for you!)

[bleaksqueak]

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[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book

[all-action-all-picture]

The letters page header for Weird War Tales, 1973.

[fayewoodss]

https://www.tumblr.com/fayewoodss/763859397872058368/i-want-to-make-a-comicillustration-based-off-this?source=share

You should do it

1) You're on tumblr, people are aware there always humor even for tragic situations

2) Tags are here for a reason, you can add disclaimers

3) I want to see it 🥺

Weatherman Dream reporting live from the scene!

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[roseserpentpress]

In singular deranged days work (where I was supposed to be getting OTHER things done) I made a cipher journal for decoding the ciphers in Gravity Falls, specifically for Journal 3, the Book of Bill and thisisnotawebsite.com. This included (ultimately) three pages of common ciphers used in the Gravity Falls fandom; originally I was only going to do two, but then got to the Blendin page in Journal 3, sighed deeply and made an extra page on the Vignére cipher. The clasps I made myself by hand, and the little white toggle is a raccoon tooth, which I may change out depending on what becomes available. The purple ink, although unable to be seen within the photos, actually glitters and looks rather cosmic to my delight.

Considering I made the most of it within a day, it meant I used the paper I had at hand, which wasn't good paper for actual ink as it bleeds through slightly (and is thus unbecoming), but as a fancy schm-ancy idiot who insists on using actual ink with dip pens for the 'breadth of the experience', this means I'm ultimately only using one side of the paper (to my chagrin) and the letters aren't as clear as they could be when I write on the paper. Nevertheless, I am rather happy about the result; young me from about a decade ago, who began to make a similar journal only to abandon the project would have been immensely excited that I actually made one and am currently using it to decipher things within Journal 3. There is something rather satisfying about it, I do confess.

[eliah]

[silver-stake-through-the-heart]

@shallowseeker @angelsdean

Sam inherited John's drawing skills

– Sam in 3x05 – John Winchester's Journal

– a black dog in John Winchester's Journal

Meanwhile, Dean in the Men of Letters Bestiary