#wonder woman

[aeturnum-mendacacium]

That one time when your crush showed their full physical body (normally looks like a vague human(?)looking blob and void of darkness) and your ass was NOT ready for the reveal

@frownyalfred

[frownyalfred]

Bruce: "Finally I have found someone who can throw me in the air! Tactical advantage."

Diana, J'onn, Hal, probably Arthur too: "We can do that too!"

Bruce, just wanted to be held by Clark, even if it's only .5 seconds: "Uh."

or even worse: Clark thinks he's got something special going with Bruce and then he sees Diana flipping Bruce like some sort of 225+ lb pancake through the air at an enemy and has to process that for a hot sec. he is not the only one strong enough, but by golly is he going to be the only one doing that from now moving forward!!

[youngjusticerulez]

Seeing Maki dressed up as Wonder Women is something I always needed in my life

Now my life goals have been fulfilled

How JJK could have been if Gege knew what happiness was

[why-i-love-comics]

Wonder Woman: Uncovered #1 (2024)

cover by Bilquis Evely & Matheus Lopes

[eepejay]

The absolute universe is everything I wished DC would do with Wildstorm. Absolute WW was my fav of the three.

Guys, I was so wrong to make fun of batbrick

I'm so gassed up for a DC story. its been so long :disintegrate:

[aroace-madness]

Deaf Captian Marvel

When Billy came to the Rock of Eternity he was so confused and oh so excited

The idea of getting super powers and helping people? A dream come true

The wizard told him to prepare himself and called the lightining

It was loud and scary, the crackling, booming sound echoed trough the throne room, filling every little nook and cranny with its presence

And thus, Billy Batsons word came silent

And Captain Marvel awoke

Justice league had the newbie from Fawcett on their radar for a while now, he seems good at what he does and seems genuinely nice

They eventually decided that it's time to finally recruit him

They land on the roof of a tall building where Captain Marvel, as the people called him, was hovering on, drawing something in a notebook

Superman: hello, you're Captian Marvel, right?

The Captian didn't answer him, didn't even acknowledge him, just kept drawing. Rude

Bruce: Captian Marvel

Still nothing

Wonder Woman: I kindly ask you to at least look at us when we're talking to you

When she placed her hand on his shoulder he flinched and turned around frightenent

Like he didn't notice they've been there for some time now

Superman: ah finally, we'd like to talk to you about- huh?

Captian Marvel was motioning him to stop, he opened his notebook on a fresh page and started scribbling something and showed them when he was done

I'm deaf, sorry

Oh

Oh

That explains why he didn't hear them earlier

Batman started signing to him but was met with frantic shaking head

So he took out a notebook

How long have you been deaf?

Since always

The how come you don't know sign language? Don't people who are born deaf learn it early on to talk with people?

I never really had anyone to teach me or talk to

Well that was, sad

Are you interested in joining the Justice League?

As soon as Captian Marvel readed the note he started shaking his head and smiling as brightly as a sun

Well then it's decided

On the next meeting Batman assigned mandatory sign language lessons

[chocobo-with-a-buster-sword]

😍😍😍😍

Artemis character sheet commission

[carelessapples]

ooooooo you wanna read absolute wonder woman soooooo bad

[jarofglitter]

Weird that I came across this blog post when I was studying for my History of Writing & Progress of Scripture midterms.

Regarding number 4; yes, Ottoman is not a language and yes, Steve Rogers and Bucky were in Turkiye not in the Ottoman Empire during WWII (1939 - 1945), possibly post 1943. By then Atatürk's Turkish Alphabet Reform was in place (thank goodness), Arabic influences removed and the alphabet was moved to Latin-based letters. Thus they would not have seen Ottoman Turkish or Persian during their time there unless the creators have taken artistic and orientalistic freedoms...

Excerpt from Wikipedia;

Ottoman Turkish script was replaced by the Latin-based new Turkish alphabet. Its use became compulsory in all public communications in 1929. The change was formalized by the Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, passed on November 1, 1928, and effective on January 1, 1929.

The “Sumerian” Cuneiform in Wonder Woman

 As folks who’ve seen the 2017 Wonder Woman may have noticed, there’s a scene in the movie where Diana effortlessly translates a set of notes that contain cuneiform.  Fellow Tumblr Assyriologist-in-training @valarhalla even took a shot at translating the notes.  And as my upcoming SBL paper demonstrates, the intersection of ancient Near Eastern languages and modern comics is my personal catnip.

So it’s time for me to confess two things.  First, I’ve spent an embarrassingly long time looking at those notes.  Second, I still can’t tell you what they say, and I can’t afford to spend more time away from studying for my rapidly approaching Northwest Semitic comp.  But I figured that I’d dump the things I do know here, in hopes that some of you lovely geniuses can get any further.

First, here is a relatively high-resolution screenshot of the four pages in the movie.  I couldn’t find one anywhere online, so I had to (totally legally) make it myself.

Second, here is the relevant transcript from the movie’s official novelization:

“Cryptographers had no luck,” the man said ruefully. “It seems like a mixture of two languages. But they have failed to determine which two languages.”

Diana […] turned her attention to Maru’s notes. She scanned them. Oh. Why hadn’t anyone mentioned that before?  “Ottoman and Sumerian,” she announced.

[…] Diana scanned the pages again. The subject matter was more puzzling to her than that actual translation. “It’s a formula… for a new kind of gas…”

[…] “Hydrogen-based, instead of sulfur.” She was sounding out the words, interpreting them.

[…] Diana continued, “The book says they plan to release this gas at… the Front…”

Now, here are the things that I feel pretty confident asserting:

The notes are indeed a mixture of two languages.  Based on my difficulty extracting meaning from the cuneiform alone, I suspect that both are necessary for an accurate translation.

The cuneiform is in the Neo-Assyrian (NA) script.  While this script was never used for writing Sumerian, it is the most standardized and simplified version, and (more importantly) it’s the most widely published version of the time.

The cursive is an alphabet (or abjad) in the Arabic family, but it’s not Arabic itself, as evidenced by letters like چ (ç).

“Ottoman” is not a language, but Ottoman Turkish and Persian were both used in the Ottoman Empire, and both of them had alphabets that contain چ.  As I’m utterly unfamiliar with Turkish and Persian, and only marginally familiar with Arabic cursive, that’s the most I can narrow it down.  Regardless, given that Steve was literally on assignment in Turkey, it’s very surprising that neither he nor the cryptographers recognized the script.

Back to the cuneiform.  Although the cuneiform writing system originated with Sumerian, it was later adapted to several different languages.  I feel fairly confident stating that this is neither Sumerian nor one of the cuneiform alphabets (Ugaritic, Hittite).

Somebody with a rather careful hand wrote the top left page, although they made a few minor mistakes (e.g. the first sign on line 3, which looks like a defective “ú”).  Someone with a much sloppier hand copied that same text onto the fourth page.

On the third page, the thing that looks like an equation is one.  The symbols underneath the square root sign are nu, like the Greek letter, so it makes sqrt(nu + nu^2).  (The other sign there is šu.)  The Arabic letters are all common equation variable values, like y and z.

Delitzsch’s Assyrische Lesestücke was published in 1912 in Germany, and it contained a “Schrifttafel” that listed cuneiform signs (in Neo-Assyrian!) with their syllabic (phonetic) and logographic (symbolic) meanings.  I would posit that Dr. Maru obtained a copy of this book, memorized the cuneiform sign list, and used it as a personal code.

Although I haven’t been able to make meaning from it, one line contains the enticing signs “dingir ma ru.”  “Dingir” is a marker (like “Mr.” or “Rev.”) that indicates that the following name is a divinity.  Was Dr. Maru asserting her own godhood?  Or was she perhaps using dingir as code for “Doctor”?

If anyone has further contributions, I would love to hear them!

[wyvernsgale]

another Tim Drake centered fic, but with Kon included this time

‘ 10 year old Timothy Drake drowns during a family outing on the Drake Yacht’, is what the headline read. Poor Timmy Drake had wandered out of his parents sight and fell overboard after taking off his life jacket, his body never found, his parents devastated. The six year old newspaper is crushed in the fist that had held it, crumpled under the fury that radiated from the reader. Timothy Drake did not drown. He was sold by his parents when he was 10, and ended up in the clutches of CADMUS, where after years of torture he escaped after finding a new friend there. “ You alright Tim? Ready to head out?” Called the voice of another teen behind him. “ Im good Kon, and yeah I’m ready. Time to raise hell.”

Or Two teens bonded by their thirst for vengeance against those who tortured and wronged them, as well as having only one another to rely on become the worlds newest super villain team.

[frownyalfred]

Supes being the only one to ever throw Bats through the air despite a bunch of others being able to do the same

Some new leaguer tries it once and doesn't understand why they're now on Supermans shit list

No one else wants to explain the X+ amount of years of Superbat pinning and baby steps for the two to get to the point of Supes throwing Bats during missions

Oh my god, imagine some new hotshot (Guy Gardner, etc) comes in and throws Batman during a mission because he saw Superman do it once and before Bruce’s feet fully touch the ground he’s hauling Hal Jordan off as the ranking Green Lantern for a discussion on Gardner because he’s a professional and won’t do it right in front of the League. MEANWHILE, Superman is getting shoved into a wall by Diana trying to calm him down because he’s got the burning red eyes and the sudden urge to throw Gardner through the air without a ring to see how he likes it (Clark was terrified Bruce would get injured and won’t fully be over this for at least 5-7 business days)

[dailydccomics]

the Wonder women become ungovernable Wonder Woman #15 art by Daniel Sampere

[acmeoop]

JLA

The Justice League of America by Alex Ross.

[why-i-love-comics]

Wonder Woman #15 - "Elysium" (2024)

written by Tom King art by Khary Randolph & Alex Guimaraes

[aroace-madness]

So i had a convo on divine discord (mostly with @toobytoobs) and I decided to make it into a post

Here are some pictures for context on how it because ya'll are gonna need it

Then there is some more stuff about the Leauge worrying about Billy and then there is a mention of Freddy storming into the Watchtower and berating the league for breaking Billys arm

And that's how we got here

Freddy: how DARE you, brake my baby brothers arm

Clark: wait, you're Captains older brother? Does that mean that the Wizard created you before him?

Freddy "ready to stir shit up" Freeman: huh? Oh yeah but I was sort of a failed experiment because of my bad leg

Bruce: experiment?

Freddy: yeah, now tell me how did you find out about the wizard

Diana: we got Captian drunk and he just started babbling about everything

Freddy: excuse you got him drunk? Sigh ok i'm kinda angry since he's my responsibility, it doesn't matter that i'm only a few months older than him

Barry: you're older only by a few months?

Freddy: yeah I am, is it really that surprising? I watched that giant grow up from the beggining and let me tell you he was hopeless couldn't even walk properly, even I walked better than him and my leg is bummed

Bruce: hm, really?

Freddy: yup, the first year was rather rough since I had to teach him everything because that stupid wizard decided to die before he could do anything

The JL: mild concern

Freddy: he also had the audacity to die right in front of Billy

J'onn: Billy?

Freddy: oh yeah, we didn't really have names for a long time at first, when we met some humans for the first time we decided to give ourselves a name, he chose William

The leauge is very concerned about the no name thing, what kind of parent doesn't name their children

Freddy mentions their sister and how she got kidnapped which made the leauge belive that the wizard did not care about her and just wanted a champion, hence why he made Freddy but he came out a "dud", and that's why Cap exists

Freddy completely forgot about what he did and is completely oblivious to what he caused

At some point Cap mentions the wizard in a present tense and confuses the JL

He explains that his ghost just hangs around the rock of eternity but is not helpful at all which makes the league want to punch the wizard even more

Captian says that he's just happy that he talks to him because he just ignores Freddys and Marys existance, that makes the leauge belive that he just ignored Freddys existance during the first few months of his life

At some point they start to belive that Mary wasn't ever kidnapped, just discarded to the side because the wizard believed she was defective

When the Leauge finally meets Mary they ask her about the Wizard, she has no idea who they're talking about

It leads them to believe that the wizard got rid of her before she even developed conciousenes

After they explain to her who they are talking about she finally gets it, she tells them how she doesn't really know him but Freddy seems to not like him

The leauge is seriously concerned for their friend and his siblings

Once they ask Captian if the wizard is his father (just to confirm some things) he answers no, that just because that man gave him his powers and brought meaning to his life doesn't mean that that's his father. They ask Freddy the same thing, he just looks at them with disgust, they ask Mary too, she looks at them like they're stupid

They really want to punch that wizard now because how much of a terrible father must you be that not a single one of your kids considers you their parent

This post doesn't do justice to the entire convo so to anyone who's on the divine discord I advise going to the writting channel and scrolling back a bit, there is a message connected to one of the first messages of this whole thing (and trust me there is a lot)