#peter x kal.

[dailaz]

The Greatest Heroes,

Who give us Hope.

[amrrow4]

So many possibilities and opportunities were lost to stupid ideas

DC Holiday Special 2017

[gaddaboutgriffon]

Super X-Man

ok, this is one of those crossovers I have no idea why I don't see much more of. but have you ever considered the concept of Kal-el landing in kansas in the X-men universe? he still ends up with the Kents but him having enhanced strength and speed as a young kid makes teaching him to hide his abilities even more important.

now let's establish some world building for this fic. 1 most mutants only have one power. a rare few have 2 and mutants with 3 or more powers can be counted on one hand throughout the history of that world. Also the earliest the x gene activates in this AU is age 12. 2 Kal was toddler sized when the ship landed. it opened and he wandered a bit before being found by the Kents. Next day someone else found the spaceship and took it away. Kal is named Clark, and they never really knew about the ship. So, growing up, when his super strength and speed starts really increasing when he is about 10, the family think he is a mutant. The rest of Clark's powers start coming in at age 15. 3 Because Clark is an alien Cerebro does not pick up on him. also, I was going to play that up and that Clark's alien brain works so differently than human or mutant that Charles basically gets static when trying to read his mind. between those two things and him having Super strength, speed, heat vision, and x-ray vision by the time he meets the X-men he is quite the mystery. 4 This fic isn't based on any one X-men cartoon or comics. So it is going to have ages and the timeline rearranged. When Clark meets the X-men it is going to be a little in the early years. The adults at the school are Charles/Professor X, Ororo/Storm, Logan/Wolverine, Hank/Beast, and I'm going to throw in Forge/Daniel Lone-Eagle (took me a while to find his name) The older kid's class which is ages 16-18 and i'll call the A class is going to include Scot/Cyclops, Jean gray, Angel/(who I just learned his name is Warren Kenneth Worthington III), Gambit/Remy (cause I want comedic chaos), and Iceman/Bobby. The younger kids B class ages 13 to 15 Nightcrawler/Kurt, Colosus/Piotr "Peter", Shadowcat/Katherine "Kate / Kitty", Rogue/Anna Marie LeBeau (also just learned her name), and Jubilee. And that is it for the ground level world building. now onto the actual story idea.

So this starts with two mutant kids I made up called Clarence with the power of short-term future vision, only able to see about a day ahead. And a girl named Jade with terrakinesis (basically earth bending) that are on the run going from town to town and basically running a gambling scam with some stone dice. (yes, this is directly inspired by avatar the last airbender season 3 episode the runaway.) Clarence only being able to see about a day in the future helps him find easy marks for their scams but isn't far enough in the future to see all the consequences and they get into a bit of trouble which has them running into someone they scammed before while they are in Smallville. We will get to that in a minute. Before that they scam Pete, one of Clark's friends from school, out of an engraved knife that had been passed down through the family and he goes to Clark to help him get it back.

While trying to help get pete's knife back he accidentally uses his powers. Jade then gets the idea that they'll give the knife back if he helps them with a few scams they haven't been able to pull before. after a week of that Clark has had enough and goes to tell them he is done with it and finds them just as they are being cornered by someone they scammed in the past. Toad, and his friends back up friends Blob and Quicksilver.

There is a fight and Cark helps Jade and Clarence get away and now they are hiding out in kent farm barn. Quicksilver calls Magneto that they found some pretty tough mutants, talking about Jade and Clark, but need help recruiting them. Meanwhile that fight got Charles attention with Cerebro. So, he is bringing Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean to go help the two teens mutants and try to convince them to come to the school. But cerebro didn't pick up on Clark.

This all comes together with the X-men and Magneto's mutants converging on the Kent's farm. It starts out with both sides talking their pitch. Clarence is more interested in Charles school, and Jade is more interested in Magneto's point of view. Clark outright rejects Magneto and Mr Kent tells them to get off the farm. Of course, things end up with a fight, which ends up wrecking the farm, and both sides find out Clark had more than just speed and strength when he hits magneto with heat vision to get wolverine out of his magnetic grip.

the brotherhood of mutants are forced to retreat, but Jade decided to go with them. Clarence apologizes to the Kent's for bringing trouble to them and chooses to go to Xaviar's school. Clark is interested in the school for mutants but is more concerned with helping rebuild the farm. Charles knows Magneto won't back off from this young boy who displayed three strong powers and and he wants to help the most unusual mutant he has seen. (remember no one knows clark is an alien at this point, and assumptions are being made.) He offers to pay for the damages (which he would have done anyway) to help convince Clark to come to his school too. clark and his parents go inside to talk about it for a few minutes before coming back out to agree to send Clark to Xavier's school for gifted children.

and that is where I am ending it. What do you guys think should happen next? tagging my mutuals @confusedshades @emacrow @chaos-bringer-13 @bianca-hooks123

[fictionadventurer]

AU asks, for all eleven of the AUs you mentioned in your tags (including the Blackberry Bushes one because why not!), mix and match for whichever one you like: 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24

2. Summarize this au in 5 sentences.

Psmith Star Wars AU: Mike Jackson is a cadet at an Outer Rim Imperial Academy whose dreams of flying an X-Wing for the Empire shatter when he learns of the Empire's atrocities. When his brother defects to the Rebellion, Mike and some of his fellow cadets decide to leave the Academy and join the rebel cause. The boys are nearly captured during their escape attempt, but they're saved by Mike's eccentric roommate, Psmith, who turns out to be a former Jedi youngling who's been hiding from the Empire. After they make their escape, Mike and his fellow cadets have to decide whether they can trust this sly, arrogant boy with these unnatural powers, and they need to find a way to find and help the Rebellion.

5. What is something you kept the same?

Lord Peter Wimsey Telepath AU: I've kept the setting and situations as close to the originals as possible. It's still 1930s England. Harriet's still accused of murdering her lover. Lord Peter's still an aristocrat. The only difference is that various superpowers are a known and accepted part of society, and Peter's ability to literally know Harriet's thoughts adds a whole new and more difficult dimension to the power imbalance between them.

9. Is there a scene you wish you could've included, but couldn't? Why?

Sherlock Holmes Pushing Daisies Crossover AU: I wish I could have figured out what the actual mystery was for the first snippet I wrote for this AU. Unfortunately, my mystery-writing skills don't extend that far.

10. Is there a character you wish you could've included, but couldn't? Why?

Queen's Thief AU of Psmith: It would be really fun to have Queen's Thief versions of Billy Windsor and Bat Jarvis, but I can't think of a great way to fit them into the story that I've outlined--as I've laid it out, Psmith takes Attolia's throne mostly through his cunning and convenient connections.

11. Is there any relationship that's different in this au than in the source material?

Supergirl "Kara raised by the Kents" AU: Since Kara's actually raised by the Kents in this AU, she's got a much deeper and more complicated relationship with them. Her relationship with Martha is rocky, because she sees Martha as competition for her role as Kal's primary caretaker. Taking care of Kal is the only purpose Kara has left in life, and it takes a lot for her to let other people into that relationship.

13. Write a lil snippet set in this verse.

From Powers and Prejudice:

"Lizzie, Jane's on TV!" Lydia shouted. Lizzie rushed into the living room, where her sisters were gathered around the set. Headlines blared BREAKING NEWS beneath live footage of a supervillain attack downtown. The Blur was already on the scene, speeding innocent victims away from danger. The Archer--outside of Pemberley--was even lending a hand. And among them in pink spandex was unmistakably-- "Jane?" Lizzie shouted. "What's she doing there?" Mom was so excited that sparks crackled around her hair. "She did so well the other night that I couldn't let the Blur fight this one alone. It was my duty to send Jane to help." Lizzie was horrified. That had been a skirmish, easily dealt with. This was turning into a battle. One of the criminals had some type of fire manipulation ability, and flames filled most of the screen. To see Jane among that-- "Are you nuts?" Lizzie shouted. "She could die out there!" Lydia rolled her eyes. "What are you so worried about? It's not like she can get hurt." Not externally. Jane's skin was invulnerable, and there was nothing that could overpower her strength. But her respiratory system was as delicate as anyone's, and there was a lot of smoke out there. Jane acquitted herself well, but eventually, Lizzie's fears were realized. Just as the last of the criminals was neutralized, Jane collapsed to the pavement. The Blur, in bright blue, was at her side in an instant. He checked over Jane and gathered her into his arms, a look of panic on his masked face. In less than a second, they disappeared from the scene. While her mother and sisters exclaimed over the scene--did you see the way he looked at her?--Lizzie headed toward the door. Mom asked, "Lizzie, where are you going?" "I don't know if you noticed, but your daughter is injured. I'm going to help her. "She's in the care of one of Netherfield's Defenders! She's perfectly safe." "I'll believe that when I see it." Kitty, fretful, said, "The Blur's so fast. They're miles away by now. Hidden away in his secret headquarters." Lizzie shrugged. "Then I'll find his secret headquarters." Ignoring their protests, she went out the door.

17. What important events have you 'translated' from canon to make sense into this au, if any?

Milo Murphy's Law Star Wars AU: Murphy's Law makes a lot of sense as an out-of-control connection to the Force. And I've turned Diogee into a droid (DO-G) because there don't seem to be many dogs in Star Wars.

18. Is there any theme or motif in this au that isn't in the original work?

Politically-realistic Princess Diaries 2 AU: There's a much stronger exploration of the theme of duty vs. love, because we have multiple characters who have dealt with this conflict. There's also a thread exploring religion, because Mia's priest uncle is a prominent character.

20. Share THREE headcanons! But about different characters.

American Hallmark Royal Romances:

The princess of California was a candidate for an arranged marriage with the crown prince of Maine until a Spunky Commoner came along and stole his heart. She was actually rather hurt by this, until it sparked her own romance story.

The Spunky Commoner met the crown prince of Maine while working on some artistic endeavor for his family. She was rather baffled by this whole royalty thing, until her relationship with the prince provided some cultural background.

Sam, the crown prince of Texas, is a bit ashamed of his nation and especially the over-the-top Texas-ness of his father. He's an excellent code-switcher, and has a bit of trouble straddling the cultural expectations of Texas and the outside world.

21. What makes you most excited about this fic?

Lord Peter Wimsey Star Wars AU: What's there not to get excited about? The Scarlet-Pimpernel-ness of Peter as a double agent within the Empire! The drama of Peter dealing with Force-visions of the future. Force-sensitive Dowager Duchess. Peter having Thrawn as both an art-and-culture buddy and an increasingly-suspicious-of-him nemesis. He's just such a fun character to throw into the structure of this universe.

24. Ramble about something you haven't gotten to talk about yet.

Blackberry Bushes Superhero AU: It says to ramble, so I'll ramble. First off, I feel guilty even claiming this an an AU, since this was really your idea and I just added some stuff to it. But it's such a fun concept and it comes to mind as an AU quite a bit because there are so many fun ways this story warps the typical superhero plots. The Superman character marries a former villain who has good reason to fear him and be suspicious of his fellow heroes. The former supervillain dictatorship is undergoing reform, and it's a legitimate thing, and we get to see the politics of that and see the ruler's children growing up in this system. Delclis' father used to be one of the great heroes, but his memory is tarnished because of the collateral damage his extreme powers caused, and now Declis has to deal with getting the same powers. Antavia's plotline of walking away from the throne become her walking away from her superpowers and inadvertently leading to the creation of her best friend's most dangerous nemeses. They're stories you couldn't come up with under the usual superhero tropes, but combining it with this very different type of story creates new and interesting angles that wouldn't ordinarily come to mind, and that's so fun.

[ninawolv3rina]

YEAH

Cass finding out most spiderpeople are not close friends with Wolverine:

[fatherson-showdown]

I POSTED THIS TO THE WRONG FUCKING BLOG neways heres the contestants list. decided to stick with a "one duo per fandom" rule for this but i didnt have enough so i ended up adding two criminal minds submissions

ill reblog this with the list of matchups once i finish randomizing them all

extremely long post warning eloel (please tell me if i got the father-son order wrong i dont know like half of these people)

The Spy and The Scout/Jeremy (Team Fortress 2)

Pigsy and MK (Lego Monkie Kid)

Dr. Eggman and Metal Sonic (Sonic franchise)

Darius Deamonne and Hunter (The Owl House)

Kohachi Inugami and Kabane Kusaka (Kemono Jihen)

Hueso and Leo (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Bowser and Bowser Jr. (Mario franchise)

Lord Garmadon and Lloyd Garmadon (Ninjago)

Brom and Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)

Prince Robot IV and Squire (Saga)

Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce Wayne (Batman franchise)

Dustfinger and Farid (Inkheart trilogy)

Victor Frankenstein and his Monster (Frankenstein)

Domingo Montoya and Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

Silas and Bod Owens (The Graveyard Book)

John Reckless and Jacob Reckless (Mirrorworld)

Conrad Grayson and Daniel Grayson (Revenge)

Denver and Moscow (La Casa de Papel)

Atticus Finch and Jem Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Dunstan Thorn and Tristran Thorn (Stardust)

Phil Dunphy and Luke Dunphy (Modern Family)

Link and Scout (Grey's Anatomy)

Tony DiNozzo Sr. and Tony DiNozzo Jr. (NCIS)

Jason Gideon and Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker (Star Wars franchise)

Morland Holmes and Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)

Wednesday and Shadow Moon (American God)

The Cigarette Smoking Man and Fox Mulder (The X-Files)

Leto Atreides and Paul Atreides (Dune)

Mufasa and Simba (The Lion King)

Baloo and Mowgli (The Jungle Book)

Aslan and Peter (The Chronicles of Narnia)

John Parry and Will Parry (His Dark Materials)

Anansi and Charlie (Anansi Boys)

General Tilney and Henry Tilney (Northanger Abbey)

Arthur Pendragon and Mordred (Arthuriana)

Denethor and Faramir (Lord of the Rings)

Gepetto and Pinocchio (Pinocchio)

Heathcliff and Linton Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Marlin and Nemo (Finding Nemo)

Brás' father and Brás de Oliva Domingos (Daytripper)

Kratos and Atreus (God of War)

Gregory Edgeworth and Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Goofy and Max (A Goofy Movie)

Son Goku and Son Gohan (Dragon Ball)

Greg Universe and Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Mr. Ping and Po (Kung Fu Panda)

Stoick the Vast and Hiccup (How to Train your Dragon)

Kumatetsu and Kyūta (The Boy and the Beast)

Aku Aku and Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot)

Lawrence Fletcher and Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher (Phineas and Ferb)

Professor Kukui and Ash Ketchum (Pokemon)

William Afton and Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Lucifer and Satan (Obey Me!)

Ozai and Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Benzo and Ekko (Arcane)

Dad Egbert and John Egbert (Homestuck)

Lord Death and Death the Kid (Soul Eater)

George and Lance and Bow (She-ra and the Princesses of Power)

Jake the Dog and Kim Kal Whan (Adventure Time)

Henry Fisher and Sal Fisher (Sallyface)

Asgore Dreemurr and Asriel Dreemurr (Undertale)

Gomez Addams and Pugsley Addams (The Addams Family franchise)

Will LaMontagne and Henry (Criminal Minds)

[starfriday]

The Grand Tapestry of Ideas Unfurls: Jaipur Literature Festival Unveils Third List of Visionary Speakers

HIGHLIGHTS

● Third List of Speakers Announced: Third tranche of 25 speakers announced - The Festival announced its third list of 25 speakers out of over 300 speakers expected to attend the 2024 edition. The third list features Amod K. Kanth , Arun Maira, Badri Narayan, Daisy Rockwell, Daniel Hahn, Guillermo Rodríguez, Gurucharan Das, Ivy Ngeow, Kal Penn, Katherine Rundell, Koël Purie Rinchet, Louise Kennedy, Manju Kapur, Matthew Parker, Miranda Seymour, Monica Ali, Naushad Forbes, Peter Frankopan, Peter Moore, Philip J. Stern , Reshma Ruia, Richard Osman, Sanjay Jha , Sudha Murty, Yatindra Mishra

The annual and iconic Jaipur Literature Festival announced its third list of speakers for the much-awaited 17th edition, set to take place from February 1 - 5, 2024 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. As the just-released list shows, the Festival will once again be a grand marathon of ideas between writers, thinkers, idealists, realists, visionaries, intellectuals, avant-garde practitioners and the iconoclasts, all of whom will engage in informed discussion, united by an abiding love for literature.

The third list of 25 speakers includes Amod K. Kanth, a prominent Indian social entrepreneur and activist with a parallel illustrious career as an IPS officer. His books include Khaki in Dust Storm: Police Diaries Volume-1’ and ‘Khaki on Broken Wings: Police Diaries Volume - 2; Arun Maira, former Member of India’s Planning Commission, Chairman of BCG India, Chairman of Save the Children India, and Chairman of Help Age International and author of the latest Shaping the Future: How to Be, Think, and Act in the New World; Badri Narayan, Sahitya Academy Award winning poet who’s poems have been translated into English, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Urdu and many other Indian languages; Daisy Rockwell, artist and International Booker Prize winning translator, along with author Geetanjali Shree, for her translation of Shree’s Hindi novel, Tomb of Sand; Daniel Hahn, Booker International Prize shortlisted writer, editor, and translator, winner of the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature; Guillermo Rodríguez, author of When Mirrors Are Windows: A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics and co-editor of Journeys: A Poet’s Diary by A.K. Ramanujan and founding director of Casa de la India, a pioneering cultural centre in Spain; Gurucharan Das, former CEO of Procter & Gamble and author of his memoir Another Sort of Freedom; Ivy Ngeow, Malaysian-born, London-based author of The American Boyfriend, longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022.

The list continues with Kal Penn, actor, writer, former White House staff member and author of recently released memoir, 'You Can't Be Serious; Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure; Koel Purie Rinchet, award-winning Indian actress, producer and writer of Clearly Invisible in Paris; Louise Kennedy, author of the Women's Prize shortlisted novel, Trespasses, which also won the McKitterick Prize, the An Post Irish Novel of the Year Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year; Manju Kapur, Commonwealth Prize winning author of the novel Custody which was made into one of Balaji’s longest running serials; Matthew Parker author of The Sugar Barons and Goldeneye: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica and his recent, One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink; Biographer, novelist, memoir writer and critic Miranda Seymour, author of the award-winning memoir In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love and recent biography I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys; Monica Ali, bestselling author of five books: Brick Lane (Shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize), Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage.

The Festival will also feature Naushad Forbes, Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, India's leading Process and Energy Efficiency Company. His recent book is The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential; Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World; The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World; and The Earth Transformed: an Untold History; Peter Moore, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Weather Experiment and Endeavour; Philip J. Stern, historian of the British Empire and the author of the award-winning book The Company-State and the latest Empire, Incorporated; Reshma Ruia, British Indian writer of the award-winning novel Still Lives; Richard Osman, author, producer and television presenter and bestselling writer of The Thursday Murder Club series; Sanjay Jha, Executive Director of Dale Carnegie and a former National Spokesperson for the Congress Party; Sudha Murty, Founder of Infosys Foundation, one of the first women engineers to start her career at TELCO (now Tata Motors), a prolific writer in English and Kannada; Yatindra Mishra, writer, columnist and cultural icon has worked extensively on the heritage of Indian music.

[waystatus]

I would argue that superheros are actually a very American type of hero myth, full of the same egalitarian/meritocratic themes that are easy to miss about American culture if you have lived your whole life in America but which immediately become obvious the moment, say, the Queen dies and suddenly all of Britain is shut down.

My argument: what's a hero look like in Medieval Europe, back when aristocracy was the taken-for-granted thing? Well, it looks like King Arthur or his knights. But King Arthur was born a king, and his knights were born knights, and all of them have the money to afford that armor and servants to polish it. You can't ever be King Arthur or even a knight.

Superheroes are different. In background, most superheroes are just kinda ordinary people: Superman is just a kid from out in the middle of nowhere (who is also a superpowered alien). Spiderman is just a city kid. Captain America is just a kid who joins the military in WWII. The X-Men are all otherwise ordinary people who develop special abilities. The general theme here is that these otherwise ordinary people become superheroes not by being born into the social class of heroes, but through having or developing extraordinary abilities which allow them to save people.

Now, not every superhero fits the general trend. Notably both DC and Marvel have a mythic hero (Wonder Woman / Thor) and a rich guy hero (Batman / Iron Man). I don't have much of an analysis here, though I do note that in the 50s having a female superhero would've seemed pretty radically egalitarian (and William Marston really was that kind of guy), and both Batman and Iron Man are not just rich guys but are both legitimately geniuses, and this is very tied up in why they "deserve" to be heroes in the fiction.

But even without trying to fit in those exceptions, the general trend of superheros being an ordinary American in terms of social class is very strong. And the themes there are usually pretty strongly stated: Peter Parker is played up as an everyman, it's a big deal in many stories that Superman is Clark Kent more than he's Kal-El, Captain America really is supposed to represent the average American in a pretty unsubtle way.

This is probably a dumb question, but do you think that superheroes are an inherently fascistic idea? I was reading an anarchist essay that described the police as "militarized groups with coercive authority and a closed, bureaucratic structure. Not developing out of a social necessity to protect people, but rather as a means to give the ruling class greater control over the population and expand the state’s monopoly on the resolution of social conflict." That sounds uncomfortably like a superhero team.

See here.

And no, that doesn't really describe a superhero team. They generally don't have coercive authority (or any authority), they are almost never bureaucratic, and they often have quite tense-to-hostile relationships with the state. I also question the extent to which they're militarized (at least in the sense of a strict chain-of-command, formal rules of engagement, professional training, etc.).

I find that quote particularly ironic, in that superhero groups arguably most closely resemble anarchist self-defense organizations if they had a lot more power but were less actively engaged in trying to overthrow the government (but I repeat myself).

[corpatrem]

❛  look  at  you ,   having  ideas !  ❜ to peter , from kal 🧡💢 - @kalixus​

there is a tested breath that peter draws in order to keep himself calm. it wouldn’t do anybody any good ( least of all him ) if his blood pressure rose before nine in the goddamned morning. florence would then keep urging him to take his meds for said high blood pressure, and peter andrews was a man of principle, if nothing else. 

he doesn’t dignify the young man with a response. usually a man of very few words in the first place, peter practically goes mute and mysteriously unresponsive whenever kal decided to pay a visit -- which, in recent weeks had start to become more frequent. knows why, of course, and his eyes flicker over to a particular bartender who was currently placing an order for new stock. and as mute and as unresponsive as he could get, one could also say that peter also gave out a bit of a...helicopter-parent vibe in these very specific times. god, does he wish he was still working at the family ranch in times like these. this sort of back-talk and uppity comments wouldn’t have even dared be thought, and a hard day’s work usually meant he didn’t have to interact with people.

sat at the far end of the bar where he could directly oversee what was going on in his bar, the older man was perturbed when kal decided to sit right next to him when there was clearly more than enough space to sit anywhere else.

scoffs, shoulders rigid as he continues scrawling illegible notes onto his notepad ( illegible to everyone except for himself and occasionally his wife. ) when fred’s new beau still does not vacate his seat, peter will finally look up, shooting him an unresponsive stare. 

                             “ you’re startin’ to give me the impression that either you don’t have a job, or you got a problem. ain’t you got somewhere t’be in the mornin’ ‘sides a bar? ”

[amrrow4]

Main reason I'm not looking forward to this team up. With DC making Jonathan as big and mature looking as possible the two kid aesthetic is ruined. Now it's just going to gonna be a Superman and his little brother, no thanks.

(I'VE UPDATED THIS POST)

Compared to these images

Update:

Since people are still liking and reposting this I feel like I should probably give an opinion having read the comics.

It's great.

Peter J Tomasi's gave Supersons fans exactly what we'd want, and had a better voice for Jon than Tom Taylor and Bendis put together.

Jon and Lois actually sound like people who actually lost a giant about of precious time together.

Jonathan and Damian had the friendship I missed. PJT dialog feels like he was directly talking to DC about what they took from Jon and him.

The only downside is that the entire issue also has a "this is how it has to be" feel to it and unfortunately for now it does.

Still loved it and still love them.😍

[navek15]

My Comics: December 2022 (Part 2)

[parisian-nicole]

Thank you @kal-elois I added that tag (nebula x peter quill) as you suggested. I've also added in this post a new pic I just made 😊

*I made this for entertainment purposes only!*

I have shipped them since Vol 2 and I even started a fic for them (Which I need to work on), even 'before' James Gunn threw out hints about some growing affection between them in Vol 3 ... You can read it on AO3: The Rebirth by Pari_Nicole It is a kind of a slow burn build up to a Star-Lord/Nebula thing. I have heard some call them Quillbula, Nar-Lord, and a couple of other Shipper names. I personally like how Nar-Lord sounds, so I am gonna be using that one (do not come for me about it :)) And I did not come up with that name, kudos to whoever did, I am just using it ;)

*SPOILER AHEAD*

I have already watched Vol 3 five or six times it is my favorite one! When Peter touched her arm lovingly and she looks down at it, then he says Gamora's name, Nebula actually looked heartbroken *sniff* Like, she thought is there one who is finally showing me something other than pain, then it was like nope ... they 'also' love my sister more. The story of her life :( Probably why I like the idea of her with Peter so much, the thought of him choosing to love Nebula more than Gamora.

[fishstickfan]

Headcanons and Random Thoughts TM I Have

(because why not) I’m only going to do three or four for each, but if this gets attention i’ll do more.

1. Aurora Rising

Zila would wear a suit, don’t @ me (aND SHE’D LOOK AMAZING IN IT)

Tyler Jones has an obvious hero complex, but I thought I’d add it here because it isn’t explicitly stated in the books

Scarlett has to be almost Sherlock Holmes level at reading people (like hOw)

Cat and Auri would totally be lowkey highkey DnD nerds (so would Fin and Zila)

2. X-Men/Overall Marvel

Deadpool, Colossus, and Cable are all husbands. this is now canon. you can’t stop me. (i sWear to gOd Marvel we need Pansexual Deadpool)

based on the Deadpool and X-Men movies (i’m sorry i just watched them with my friend recently) you could never have a mutant with the same abilities ever. they could be similar, but it most likely isn’t possible (idk if this was ever mentioned, i just thought it would be cool to bring up).

Shuri and Peter Parker would 100% be a dynamic duo. they could literally solve so many problems together

All of the Avengers or X-Men could have HUGE hero complexes. Alternatively, the could be switched easily to villainy if they had superiority complexes (or inferiority complexes, it depends on how you look at it)

3. Harry Potter

As a kid, Draco definitely wanted to dye his hair. he had perfect hair to dye, but his fAtHeR Lucius wouldn’t let him.

Hermione was the kid that would feel the abstract concept of proving herself. she didn’t feel she had to prove herself to anyone specifically, but she still felt the need to prove herself.

Harry probably had ADHD or something of the like, and his hyperfixations were DADA and Quidditch and probably other stuff like Draco Malfoy

Ron 100% wore all of the jumpers he got from his mother when he got older (like nursing home age). He was an old man, what would you expect

4. Riordanverse (I don’t have any real good ones)

All of the gods existing together in the same world must be so chaotic

Reyna and Hylla have to be my favorite sibling duos, beside Carter and Sadie

Zeus totally made Apollo’s human form have the name Lester to make him even more of a disaster. Like, imagine waking up in a dumpster and learning your name is Lester (no offense to any Lesters out there). Then, you wouldn’t be recognized as a god??? Like imagine how frustrating that would be (especially for APOLLO).

Magnus and Alex are now the dysfunctional parents of the kids who come to their shelter. I find this amazing, and I think they’d both hit it off with all the kids

5. A Court of Thorns and Roses (+ the rest of the series)

Feyre’s daddy issues are Relatable TM

I think Tamlin should have cat eyes, and a dumbass mode (don’t @ me yet again)

Elain is the embodiment of cottagecore

Feyre has a thing with necks- (source: she mentions pretty much every named characters’ neck in ACOTAR, including her own. Also, this is unrelated, but, she had “watery bowls” a lot??????)

6. The Dragon Prince (this is just questions at this point)

Can Callum master any of the other Primal Sources???

Can Rayla mask herself??? Moon elves can make illusions, so why can’t Rayla mask herself?

Ezran is the strongest out of all of them. This is a fact.

Claudia and Soren have daddy issues. Claudia tries to be her father because of the manipulation he put her through, and Soren realizes his father is bAd and separates himself from him.

7. She-Ra

Either Sea Hawk is a theater kid, or he’s a choir kid, and I do not cAre if there’s a difference.

Double Trouble was also a theater kid

Mermista totally would’ve had a Sherlock phase

I love that the writers made Spinerella and Netossa have so much development.

8. The Umbrella Academy

Ben is Ace (I was talking to @disaster-bi-in-a-nutshell while I was doing this-- gracias me amicum)

What happened to the other kids that were born like the seven that Hargreeves adopted? Was this ever mentioned???

because of Hargreeves every one of the characters has daddy issues

Most of these were made at around 2am, so nOne of it will make actual sense. NOTHING IS SPELLED RIGHT I BET, BUT KSGKDGJKSJGKSRJIOGSJIPGJOS. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[hellzyeahwebwielingessays]

Did Norman’s resurrection undermine death in comics?

Let’s provide a little context. In 1973 Gerry Conway and Gil Kane killed off Norman Osborn in ASM #122. The issue concluded the 2-part ‘Death of Gwen Stacy’ storyline, often debated as the greatest Spider-Man story of all time. The story left little ambiguity as to Norman’s fate as he was impaled upon his own rocket-propelled glider.

As if to hammer the point home, in ASM #123 we saw Norman’s body en route to the morgue.

However, in 1996 the conclusion to the infamous ‘Clone Saga’ storyline revealed Norman to be alive and well. To make it clear that this wasn’t anything other than the bona fide article Norman was depicted with the chest scars left behind by his glider.

The decision was, and to an extent still is, divisive within the Spider-Fandom.

One of the most ardent critiques of the decision was that it undermined the weight of death within the comic book genre.

This is both true and untrue.

It’s true in a sense because every time a character comes back to life it undermines the meaning of death in comics.

But detractors hold Norman’s return in particular contempt. On this point though the above statement doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Were we to confine things strictly to the Spider-Man titles there had already several characters who’d seemingly died and returned.*

One could argue that functionally  Gwen Stacy herself had returned from the dead in the original ‘Clone Saga’ from 1975 via cloning. Even if you do not agree there are other examples to be found.

The original Vulture was presumed dead in ASM #48 only to return in issue #63.

Mysterio was also presumed dead back in ASM #141, reappearing in disguise in ASM #193.

In ASM #131 Doctor Octopus and Hammerhead were both killed off in a nuclear explosion!

Yet they both came back between ASM #156-159.

Both Miles Warren and Spider-Man’s clone (later known as Ben Reilly) were believed to have been killed in ASM #149 circa 1975. However, Ben’s survival was confirmed in Web of Spider-Man #117 from 1994 and the Jackal’s in ASM #399 from 1995.

Mendel Stromm died in literally his first appearance way back in 1966 (ASM #37) but his return was confirmed in ASM #418 alongside Norman’s. In fact both characters had technically returned prior to that but their identities had been concealed.

Were we to look beyond the Spider books we’d have no end of examples of deaths and returns in comics by 1996. Heck, in 1992 cartoon ‘Batman the Animated Series’ the Joker often seemingly died only to pop back up with no explanation.

So Norman’s return was far from a new phenomenon within the Spider-Man universe, let alone the wider super hero genre. It was just perceived as such due to the iconic nature of the story he’d died in.

But even then it’s not really a fair point to hinge a critique upon.

Superman himself, the first and most famous of all superheroes, had died in 1993 and returned later that very same year. The story, justifiably or not, had become an instant classic, received tons of media coverage and was entirely promoted upon the fact that Superman was going to die.

Jean Grey had perished in 1980 at the conclusion of the ‘Dark Phoenix Saga’, often regarded as the  most iconic X-Men story of all time. The ultimate resolution of the story revolved  around Jean’s death.

This went on to be unquestionably the most impactful in death in X-Men history yet she returned in 1986.

Unlike Superman or Jean’s death’s, Norman’s demise was never the crux upon which the story hung. That was always Gwen’s  demise considering it was you know…the literal name of the storyline…

Call me crazy but I do not think brining back the Green Goblin after he died in a story called the ‘Death o Gwen Stacy’ really undermines the power of death in the Spider-Man universe.

*For the sake of argument, let’s dismiss examples like Spidey’s own apparent death in ‘Kraven’s Last Hunt’ or intentional fake outs. We are talking about the times when a character was intended to be dead but consequent stories back-peddled on that.

[relivethesplendor]

In the spring of 1997, when Victor Valdovinos was in seventh grade, he showed up to school one day to find a big-budget film production under way: All around him were tractor trailers, mobile dressing rooms, and people with walkie-talkies behaving as though they owned the place. The movie was Apt Pupil, Singer’s first project after his breakthrough, The Usual Suspects.

Filming took over Eliot Middle School in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles. Late one afternoon, after basketball practice, Valdovinos stopped in an empty restroom. While standing at a urinal, he says, he felt a presence behind him. He turned and saw a bespectacled man in his early 30s. It was Bryan Singer. He looked Valdovinos over; Valdovinos remembers him saying, “You’re so good-looking. What are you doing tomorrow? Maybe I could have somebody contact you about putting you in this movie.” (Through his attorney, Singer said that he did not know who Valdovinos was and denied that anything had happened between them.)

The film, which was based on a Stephen King novella, starred Ian McKellen as Kurt Dussander, a former Nazi concentration-camp commandant living in Southern California, decades removed from the war and trying to keep his past a secret. The other lead was a 14-year-old named Brad Renfro—cast as Todd Bowden, Dussander’s neighbor, who discovers the Nazi’s secret and threatens to turn him over to authorities unless the old man tells him in graphic detail about the atrocities he committed. One scene has Todd taking a shower in his school’s gym, which triggers images of Jews in a gas chamber.

That scene would lead to a series of lawsuits against Singer and the production. At least five plaintiffs, all minors between the ages of 14 and 17, were extras in the film and, in essence, claimed that members of the crew had bullied them into stripping naked for the shower scene. The boys and some of their parents said they’d been aware that the job called for partial nudity, which they had been led to believe meant wearing a Speedo or a towel. One of the crew members later said he thought that there had been a screwup the day of the shoot—that only the adult extras were supposed to have been asked to appear naked, and that somehow the minor and adult extras had been mixed together. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to press any criminal charges; the suits—which alleged negligence, unlawful sexual harassment, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress—were settled for an undisclosed sum, and all parties were bound by confidentiality agreements.

By Valdovinos’s account, his experience on the Apt Pupil set was far more upsetting. After being dropped off by his father one morning, he was directed to the locker room. Shooting was about to begin. He remembers that the locker room had been divided—a screen here and lights over there. A crew member gave him a towel and told him to disrobe completely and wrap the towel around his waist. He was 13 years old. He hadn’t yet had his first kiss.

“I’m hanging out,” Valdovinos says. “All of a sudden, Bryan comes in. He goes, ‘Hey! How are you?’ Real cheerful. And I’m like, ‘Hi.’ I can’t remember his exact words, but he was kind of just saying ‘Come back here.’ He kind of directs me; he kind of grabs me; and he takes us to the back area, which was kind of closed off. Like, this is the whole locker room”—Valdovinos gestures to suggest the space—“they’re doing their stuff over there, and I was back here, in the towel, with no shirt and no clothes on, sitting on one of the locker-room benches. Bryan’s like, ‘Just hang out here. It’s going to be all day. Don’t worry.” Singer left, and Valdovinos waited for what seemed like hours.

Eventually, he says, Singer came back and made small talk. How are you doing? Do you need anything? “Every time he had a chance—three times—he would go back there … He was always touching my chest.” Finally, according to Valdovinos, Singer reached through the towel flaps and “grabbed my genitals and started masturbating it.” The director also “rubbed his front part on me,” Valdovinos alleges. “He did it all with this smile.” Valdovinos says that Singer told him, “You’re so good-looking … I really want to work with you … I have a nice Ferrari … I’m going to take care of you.”

“I was frozen. Speechless,” Valdovinos continues. “He came back to where I was in the locker room throughout the day to molest me.” (Three sources confirmed that Singer did drive a Ferrari at the time, and we were able to verify Valdovinos’s description of how the set was arranged and of certain people he says he met there. His father told us he remembers dropping him off for the filming and thinking that perhaps his son would become an actor. Singer’s lawyer said that he could find no record of Valdovinos’s having been an extra and questioned why Valdovinos was not able to produce a pay stub or other documentation.)

Valdovinos says that although he did end up being used as an extra in a number of takes, he couldn’t ever bring himself to watch Apt Pupil. His brother Edgar did, though, and when Edgar told Valdovinos that he didn’t appear on-screen, Valdovinos replied, “That dude was, like, touching on me.” Edgar pressed for more details, but Valdovinos didn’t explain what he meant to his brother, who is now deceased. “It was embarrassing. I didn’t want anyone to know. So I locked it away.”

By Valdovinos’s account, his life changed after the molestation. When he was 16, he got his girlfriend pregnant, and they had a daughter. “I was trying to prove that I was a man,” he says. He had been an A and B student and a standout football prospect, but he stopped going to classes and was kicked off the team. He dropped out of school for six months and worked a series of minimum-wage jobs—at a fast-food restaurant, a deli—before returning and eventually graduating.

Valdovinos and the baby’s mother argued; he was arrested after a neighbor reported a domestic disturbance. They broke up when their daughter was six months old. Valdovinos had other failed relationships. Years later, an affair with a married woman, estranged from her husband, ended in catastrophe: an arrest and a year-long jail sentence for domestic battery, drug possession, and driving a car without the owner’s permission. He lost one job after another.

Valdovinos began to question how his life might have gone differently if not for that locker-room encounter with Singer. “What if he never did this to me—would I be a different person? Would I be more successful? Would I be married?” As he watched the Harvey Weinstein scandal unfold, Valdovinos thought, “Me too—only I was a kid.” He considered going to Singer’s house and knocking on the door and asking him, Why? He thought about going public. But who would believe him?

[amrrow4]

This ... This is what we should have gotten.

No Age Up. "NO Forced Development or Narratives, No legion of superheroes or Son of Kal-el BS.

Super sons if they had actually grown up with each other instead of being separated