#lois lane ( thread )

[jesncin]

batman: so by splitting the work between former League members, Young Justice team, and current League members we were able to take down a good portion of the meta child trafficking ring and bring one of the leaders of the operation to justice.

wonder woman: but you lied in order to do that. do you feel bad that you had to lie. to do that.

batman (a vigilante): ,,? not. not really.

[dcworldtweets]

Another original idea that I’ve had for a while that I also love so much.

In my head, Clark received Gotham’s worst and shortest internet hate train in the minutes after he said “very much so” before Bruce replied “okay” and people realized that this random reporter was actually Bruce’s friend

[kryptonbabe]

"Wouldn't she feel silly if she knew I'd fooled her into thinking I tried to fool her when I didn't?"

They're in love and it shows

From Superman #30 (1944) by Don C. Cameron Pencilers & Ira Yarbrough

[vntagetee]

﹙continued.﹚ lois + clark  for  @soughtserenity

“me.  the  person  is  me.”  lois  reminded  him,  pointing  to  her  chest.  “well,  that’s  a  relief.  i  can  tag  along  to  report  on  it  for  my  story  then.  the  boss  has  been  pushing  for  something  like  this  for  a  weeks. readership is down fourteen percent.  it’ll  be  a  win  for  both  of  us.”

[flyhxghfalldeep]

Closed Starter for @beautifulghcstx

" I'd say we make a pretty good team "

"You think so?" Lara rose a brow, finding herself just as pleased by the statement as she was surprised. She had always been more adept when it came to working independently than collaboratively on things, after all, and while Lara could solve almost any conundrum, there would always be one puzzle only others held the last pieces to solving; loneliness. "Well I definitely would have struggled to get this all the way up here by myself so, thank you, I really appreciate the help" she smiled softly, lingering. "Did you...I could buy you dinner or something maybe? To thank you for your phenomenal teamwork?" she offered, trying not to cringe. Why did she always have to be so awkward?

[siiinfully]

continued from this with @xenophiliarp

She really was just the best, and he couldn't help but feel there being such a magnetism towards her. So yeah, Conner went along with her when she asked, a bit embarrassed with how quickly he'd agreed to be her companion for the time being.

Still nervous enough that he was eating, normally he could eat whatever he wanted and the energy was just stored inside of him much like sunlight was. So even without the sun, enough sustenance through food would keep him going at least for a little while. He realized his deep blue eyes were just focused on her like a deer in headlights, his mouth closed but stuffed with food. Which he swallowed, some of it not exactly being chewed enough to get down, but the muscles of his body said damn well otherwise.

"Thank you," it was obvious, the voice was identical, he even looked like a younger version of his genetic father. Without heeding any portion control, the entire glass of water went down his gullet after the food he'd been helping himself to. "Are you sure it's okay for us to be seen like this in public? I mean..."

"I don't want to come between anything."

+++

“Why not? We’re not doing anything inappropriate.” Lois knew that her growing attraction to someone who could be her own son was very wrong. Very, very wrong. And just because Connor could be Clark’s clone didn’t mean that was the reason why she was drawn to him. No, he was sweet and considerate and a complete gentleman, which were more important to her than anything else. She reminded herself that she was a mother figure in his life and that she shouldn’t try anything…taboo.

His caution did show her that he was worried about the same thing, and it made her smile a little. “Nothing to come between, really. You know your dad and I aren’t on good terms anymore, but it shouldn’t affect our relationship. I still care for you, Connor. I hope you still know that.”

Sensing some discomfort in him, at least through the fleeting expression he previously had, she reached for the glass of water to refill it in case he wanted or needed more. As she returned the glass to him, her fingertips accidentally brushed over his, and it made her gasp and send tiny jolts of warmth shooting up her hand and over the back of her palm. Lois quickly withdrew her hand and leaned back against her chair, now unable to look at him.

[bruiseeasily]

starter for lana lang / @cagedpotential

"stop hiding, clark, mrs. k said you're in he―" but when she climbs up to the barn, there is a very different form staring back at her. "oh." lois lets out, stopping at the top of the stairs. there's an awkward moment as she looks around, not even sure if she's hoping for clark to miraculously show up. she shakes her head slightly when she realizes how stupid this is. "i didn't know you were here. but since you are..." she takes a few steps forward, fidgeting her fingers. "... how the hell did you date clark? you're so..." she looks the other up and down, "much better than him. how did you put up with him?"

[siiinfully]

“Together,” she echoed, her worries lessening somewhat. A part of her – well, most of her – didn’t really think that conforming to society was important, but she also wanted to make sure that he felt the same way. Lois returned his smile and leaned over for another kiss, shorter but just as sweet as the others. “I love you.” A statement that she whispered again in case he was wondering if the last few minutes had really happened or not.

“So…should we continue?” She was referring to them going over the case files, but if he ended up taking it another way, she wouldn’t mind. They still had several papers to go through, and the last was a stack of photos that were most likely the crime scene photographs. Definitely graphic if they were, and Lois wasn’t keen on flipping through them for clues.

“Yeah,” Finnegan replied simply, a gentle smile spreading across his lips. Lois diverted her gaze, and for a brief few moments, Finnegan wondered why. His heart began to stammer, yet almost as soon as it had, Lois laughed and then leaned in to kiss him sweetly on the lips. Instantly, the anxieties rushing through Finnegan soothed. He smiled gently back at Lois and met her gaze. 

“Good, I’m glad that’s the case,” he murmured, when she confessed that her feelings were as strong as his. The sentiment kept the smile on his features, even when she began talking about how exploring things personally might complicate things professionally. Finnegan nodded, though still smiled as he murmured “I know… but I also know we’ll work it out, together. We fix things all the time professionally. We can use that same energy personally.” 

@siiinfully

[nitpickrider]

A lot of villainous schemes have been foiled by Lois Lane's brain snapping onto the ONE dangling thread the bad guys left in the open Action Comics 434

[vntagetee]

lois lane / tags

[bruiseeasily]

"good. 'cause it'd be hard to explain a year-long absence without the full story." there's a slightly nervous laugh that escapes her lips but it has nothing to do with the situation she's signing up to (without fully knowing on what). lois grabs the folder and scans her eyes diagonally. highlighted words gives her enough information, a name pops up. "you have a guy deep in mambo number five?!" she asks with widened brown eyes and a low voice so no one in the diner can hear them. "i've been trying to get in for months." a pause once she understands what she's admitting to erin. a detective. "not like that. someone came to me with a story." and she'll leave it at that. she closes the papers and brings her hands closer to her. "i'll do it." the determination is clear in her voice. "but clark can't know." she was sure that'd be easy for erin. after all, undercover work meant discretion.

continued, for @lindscys

[zahri-melitor]

Conclusions so far from reading a bunch of articles and how I think I'll approach it:-

The Silencer #1-18 2018 is probably not necessary but worthwhile as it appears to contain a bunch of things about What Happened To Leviathan since it last popped up in Batman Incorporated 2012 and Grayson.

Nightwing #48-49 2016 is vaguely connected in terms of 'referencing story sloshing around'.

Action Comics #1001-1011 (proper lead in apparently starts #1007)

DC's Year of the Villain Special #1 (just the Leviathan story)

Superman: Leviathan Rising Special #1

At this point Event Leviathan starts (I don't see any reason not to follow CBRO for this one)

Lois Lane #6 apparently references the aftermath of Event Leviathan, so I'd probably just read Lois Lane 2019 immediately after reading Event Leviathan (though if you want the full period-effect I guess interleave issues with the event, reading Lois Lane #1 between issues #1 and #2 of Event Leviathan and so on)

Then it seems to roughly go:

Action Comics #1017-1021

This also ties in with the various arcs of Young Justice 2019 and I need to reread to work out where things slot in

Leviathan Dawn #1

Checkmate 2021

Also I need to consider:

Where does Naomi vol 1 fit into this (as it's clearly interacting with Action #1015-1016 but I believe it comes before this)

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen is also in this time frame but I don't think it's directly linked?

I just realised for my Kate Spencer read I need to go back and start Green Arrow 2016 from at least #25 which enticingly tells me Dinah breaks up with Ollie so I'm all for it (I realise this will be for like 30 seconds but let me dream)

God I love comics.

Sometimes I open a character on the wiki to try and work out something and it’s like…oh. This is someone’s favourite character. There is an incredible in depth write up of their entire history, and you scroll down and it’s like…31 total appearances.

Anyway I’m trying to work out if I need to read The Silencer as a lead in for all the 2019 Leviathan nonsense I would otherwise avoid except Kate Spencer AND Lois Lane are both involved.

[suzukiblu]

WIP WEDNESDAY GAME

Taken from @kedreeva.

It’s WIP Wednesday, time for a little accountability, sharing your work, and getting a kick in the pants.

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file names:

the one where Kon's soulmark isn't fake

feral Kon and liger pups

Krypton lives and Kara did not sign up for this

you're a real Katch, girl

Tim + clonecest

snippet from “the one where Kon's soulmark isn't fake”:

Anyway, then Steel catches them, so that's pretty helpful. 

"Thanks, man," Superboy manages past the painful kryptonite-induced weakness and nausea, and Steel sets them both down all nice and neat on the sidewalk. 

"Any time, kid," he says as he breaks the bolted-in kryptonite off Lois Lane's chest with an armored hand, then tears off into the sky with it, presumably to deal with a certain delusional idiot. Superboy figures he'll leave him to it and just make sure the pretty lady is okay, given the active involvement of kryptonite in the whole situation. 

He looks at Lois Lane and opens his mouth to ask if she's alright, and she shrugs out of the broken straps that are all that's left of the bomb harness now that Steel's gotten at it. 

The front of her blouse is torn right over her heart, and Superboy can see the bright blue swirl of her soulmark through the damage. 

It really pops, he thinks distantly. 

"You're staring, kid," Lois Lane says dubiously, putting a hand over her exposed mark, and Superboy jolts in mortification. 

"Sorry!" he blurts, looking away quick. Well–now he knows who's on the other end of Superman's soulmark, he guesses. And it's not like it's a surprise who it is. A lot of people have suspected that Lois Lane and Superman are soulmates, after all, especially since he died and everyone found out he definitely had one. 

Though the confirmation of that fact does kinda make Superboy wonder what's going on with Clark Kent, now. He thought he and Lois Lane were engaged or something. Or like–maybe they're married by now? He doesn't actually know. He doesn't, like, make a habit of keeping up on the relationship status of random Daily Planet reporters. 

Although he guesses Lois Lane doesn't count as "random", considering. 

"Sorry," he mutters again. "I won't, like–tell. Obviously. I mean it's not–like, obviously you'd be Superman's soulmate but I won't actually–" 

"It's not Superman," Lois Lane says shortly, still covering her chest kind of . . . protectively, maybe? And Superboy . . . frowns. 

"What?" he says.

[imthepunchlord]

Okay, so seeing your Zodiac polls made me realize something interesting: If there is one character who could be interesting without miraculous (minus Chloe and Lila, who already had clear roles (albeit shared ones)), it would be Alya.

Alya, with her setup, personality, and interest in being a reporter, could have been very easily set up to be a Lois Lane/Jim Gordan/Renee Montoya-type character. A civilian aid/ally who could help the cast with their public image and even aid in investigations and information gathering. Instead of trying to figure out the heroes' identities (which, given she's a major comic book nerd, you think she would know that would be a terrible idea), she could have helped try to figure out Hawkmoth's identity since it's pretty clear Ladybug and Chat Noir don't know how to do detective work. Heck, even with her blog, she could have used it as a way to fight Hawkmoth by raising mental health awareness and sharing mental health resources to combat his akumas. And given that she was planned to be sup[er tech in earlier versions, she could have become the Duo Oracle/Girl in the Chair, helping the heroes from behind the scenes in her own techy hacker way.

To add to it, it seems like it was late development that planned for Alya to be a hero. All I see of Alya concept art wise has her as Marinette's civilian friend, nothing of her being a hero. It also seems like Alya was a lot wealthier in earlier concept and had some interest in fashion. And of course, still very much a wingwoman.

At most, Alya was in the know, and it seems like it was pretty early on. Probably had the role of being the source of normalcy to Marinette's life, covered for her, and yeah probably helped in other ways.

Over all, it does back that I think Alya is a solid character and has a lot of promise, though wasn't well executed. And she can work whether with a Miraculous or not. There's actually a lot of potential possible plot threads to do with her.

[beatriceeagle]

@tevyaa sent an ask with a snippet from "something just broke" for DVD commentary. Unfortunately due to the nature of the fic, even a very short snippet takes up a massive amount of space (and the formatting limitations of the ask box make it very difficult to parse) so I'm making a separate post for it.

Commentary under the cut. (Since this fic heavily includes diegetic bolded text, my commentary will be indented.) Tragically, it doesn't seem possible to right-align text on Tumblr, so apologies for any confusion about who's speaking.

Given the subject matter of the fic, be advised that there's a whole lot of discussion of sexual assault below.

"unstoppable mofos in masks" group chat

Donna I have a question I'd like to throw to the chat

Would you be comfortable with male survivors in here?

There was a version of this fic that dug into the gendered experience of sexual assault a lot more, but I ended up mostly cutting that thread for being a) not totally relevant to the broader point I was making, b) very difficult to untangle the Watsonian and Doyleist implications of, and as a result c) something that I wasn't totally sure what I wanted to say about. Some of that material ended up in "this year's love." Some of it is still floating around in my brain.

I left this particular conversation less because I had something to say with it, and more because it felt like something these particular characters would bring up.

Mia are they unstoppable mofos in masks? because if not could be a problem

Firenza I assume this is someone you know and trust not to fuck up too badly?

I'm really proud of "Firenza Hale" as a secret identity name for a fire-based superhero.

Donna I do

Barbara I'll vouch for him too.

I hope everyone appreciates that Barbara and Bruce are the only characters in the fic who end every sentence with a period.

Firenza Then I'm okay with it

Donna Mia, I’m assuming you were trying to say you don’t mind?

Mia 👍

Donna And Kory already said she’s okay

Okay, I’ll add him

Donna Troy added Dick Grayson

Mia no fucking way

oh wow that was super not okay sorry

I have read some of Mia's run in Green Arrow, but not nearly as much as I have of many of the other characters, so although I have a sense of her personality, I was very worried that I might have totally missed the mark with her. My general sense from the reaction I've gotten is that I did not at the very least TOTALLY miss it, which is a great relief. I bring that up mostly because, for obvious reasons, this is the moment that I worried most about. It did very much feel like a moment that needed to be acknowledged, though, and Mia seemed like the right choice of person to do so.

Dick Hey Mia 😎

I assume you’re the one who named the chat?

Mia like it?

Dick It’s amazing

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"unstoppable mofos in masks" group chat

Here's the level of picky that I get about writing: In this fic, I tried not to have the same characters/medium twice in a row, so for instance I tried not to have a newspaper article followed immediately by another newspaper article, or a Donna conversation followed by another Donna conversation. And TO THIS DAY it bugs me that I didn't find something to go in between these two group chat snippets.

Firenza Hey, does anyone know anything about Lois Lane?

She approached me to talk to her for an article about the JLA's response or lack thereof

Her work seems good, but I wanted to be thorough

Barbara Lois is on the up-and-up

Missed a period here. I should probably go back and fix that.

Donna She is JLA-adjacent, which is probably technically a conflict, but you know how that goes

The journalistic ethics of the superhero world fascinate me to no end.

Firenza She actually told me that

Donna Well I think she's a great reporter who's interested in the truth

Dick This is a pro-Lois Lane household

Apartment

Whatever

Firenza Okay, that's all very reassuring

Btw I know she's looking for other vigilantes to talk to, anonymously or otherwise

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Texts between Barbara Gordon and Stephanie Brown

So, have you decided about Bruce?

nope

stuck in unending indecisive hell

Steph and Mia have similar texting styles because they're modeled after the younger Gen Z texters I know. Steph uses slightly more punctuation than Mia because I tried to make everyone's personal style slightly different. (I also tried to think about how different social circles would affect each other's styles. The OG Titans grew up together and stay in frequent contact, so they write similarly! And so on!)

I may have a compromise option for you. Or at least, something that you could do to test how you feel.

??

Lois Lane is doing a story on the JLA's general culture and response to abuse and assault. You could talk to her about your general feelings—and you could do it anonymously.

She probably wouldn't print specific accusations without more evidence, but you're not sure you want to do that anyway.

So it could be a way of saying *something* without having to decide whether you want to say *everything* yet.

I thought the Steph subplot was important to include because this is fundamentally a fic about the SYSTEMS that allow sexual assault to flourish, and systems that allow sexual assault will also allow other kinds of abuse. I also knew that I wanted the fic to end with everything not totally tied up and neatly resolved, and this was an obvious choice for a loose thread to remain.

that's… an idea

i'll think about it

[siiinfully]

There was a surprised gasp from the closet, and moments later, she turned to face him, holding the necklace in front of her. It was beautiful, definitely not something she would have expected to get for herself. "I love it...thank you," she said, wrapping it once around her wrist to keep it from falling as she hooked her arms around Clark's neck before kissing him.

As Lois rummaged through the closet, Clark watched with a grin, sensing she was close to the gift he got her - a small, elegantly wrapped box with a delicate silver necklace adorned with a single shimmering sapphire pendant. “I couldn’t resist,” he admitted, following her to the closet. “You deserve to be spoiled, Lois Lane.”