wanderingmind867
"The Idle Vapourings Of A Mind Diseased"
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Shamus: Autistic, 19, Male (He/Him). This is a multifandom blog.
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Acapulco, México. [OC] 2250x4000 - Author: elijuarezrey on Reddit
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Is it weird that this is one of my favorite Christmas songs?
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Autism Speaks Canada is "concluding its operations" on January 31st 2025!
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what do you mean my mutuals don’t look like their icons?!?!!?
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It's weird to me that the first Metal Man created is Platinum, the one in love with Doctor Magnus. And I do like the chemistry lessons here. I actually learned a little about Gold, Lead, Mercury and Tin here. (Showcase #37):
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wanderingmind867 · 12 hours ago
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Considering how I just finished reading the last Doom Patrol story I want to read, I feel like now is the proper time to try and discuss how I actually really liked Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani's work together on the book. Arnold Drake makes the whole book feel like a gigantic comedy, with constantly entertaining dialogue and bizarre villains galore. The Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, General Immortus, Garguax, The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, etc. The book is bizarre, and fun for it. It's not bizarre in a scary way, it's mostly just a humour comic with elements of a standard superhero series. And I really like that. And I feel like nobody since has captured the innocence and charm and nuance of Arnold Drake's series.
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The lady who kills the Doom Patrol in two issues: it's Madame Rouge! She does what nobody else could. This lady has actually really stood out to me. Shockingly, she might be the most well rounded if all the antagonists the team faces. This schizophrenic former french actress with rubber powers; who's in it for herself and herself alone. Not the Doom Patrol and not the Brotherhood of Evil. Just for herself. (Doom Patrol #119):
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Things I like about this decal on a restaurant window: -the insane orange waiter -that he’s carrying his plates in the air like a strongman -the couple looks like this isn’t the first time he’s done this, but it’s easier to just let it happen at this point. -the sign says PASTA as if he’s screaming it like a frankenstein -but he’s holding a plate of an entire chicken and a plate of wine glasses -there’s three wine glasses -one’s for him.
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wanderingmind867 · 15 hours ago
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Since I made a Doom Patrol series idea (out of anger at how Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol run ends), here's a new addition I just wrote. Me trying to give Mento a more sympathetic backstory. I don't make him any less of a jerk or a negligent father, but I at least provide (in my eyes) a decent justification as to why he became the man he is. And it involves childhood trauma and intense self loathing.
Steve Dayton was born an only child, with high expectations and pressure put on him from a very young age. His parents were rich, and obsessed with the ideals of perfection and normalcy. Steve was diagnosed with quite a few mental health disorders as a kid (like autism, for example), but his parents always paid to silence the doctors. They couldn't believe their child was a "freak", when they were perfect and normal.
Due to this hostile environment, Steve's childhood was… unpleasant, to put it mildly. He was punished whenever he showed any traits dictating signs of abnormality. If he showed any interest in anyone besides women, he was punished. If he expressed his autistic traits, he was punished. If he even just lightly suggested that he disagreed with his parents, he was punished. They taught him that obedience is key, and normalcy is the goal of life. After years of abuse, steve began to believe it himself. He repressed all memory of his autism. He repressed his "freakish" thoughts and behaviors. He made himself the perfect golden boy of his family's dreams. And thus, Steve Dayton became known as the world's fifth richest man (and the world's biggest snob, depending who you asked).
But you know…the funny thing about repression is that it always leads to self loathing. And in Steve's case, it also lead to the development of his telekinetic powers. He began suffering traumatic migraines daily, throbbing pain brought on by 20+ years of repression. To alleviate the pain, he got his doctors to run all sorts of tests on him. And they discovered his psychokinetic powers through brain scans. Hoping to channel this power (and alleviate the burning pain in his skull), Steve goes along with them. This led to the creation of his psychic helmet, which channeled his excessive brainwaves into bursts of physical force.
Maybe a few years after all of this stuff happens, the Doom Patrol is created. And that's how Steve Dayton learns of, and subsequently falls in love with Rita Farr. Or, well, it's unclear. With how much Steve's repressed over the years, it's unclear if he liked her, or if she was merely the only member on the team he could let himself feel comfortable being seen with. The World's Fifth Richest Man, admiring a team of "freaks"? No, it couldn't be. He can't be different. He can't be! The self loathing and repressed feelings only got worse and worse.
With Rita and the Doom Patrol in his life (plus having to look after Beast Boy, a kid with just as many issues as him), Steve was able to manage his self loathing and mental anguish. But one day, the Doom Patrol died. Rita died at the hands of Madame Rouge. As did Robotman, Negative Man and The Chief. These losses sent Steve spiralling. He retreated in upon himself again. He began getting more migraines, and he turned to alcohol and cigarettes to cope. He began neglecting his son. Life lost all meaning, and he suffered in silence (his father and mother taught him never to show weakness in public).
When the New Doom Patrol was founded by Arani Desai, Steve paid them no mind. But when they came to him and told him there was a chance Rita was still alive, that's when Steve began to feel hope and joy again. For the first time ever, he had a chance at happiness again. He would not lose that. So he comes out of retirement as Mento, and helps the Doom Patrol track down Madame Rouge for answers. Sadly, Madame Rouge never get a chance to reveal anything. This left Steve heartbroken and miserable and more repressed than ever, a perfect candidate for Mr. Nobody to manipulate and control.
So that's how Mr. Nobody forcibly takes over Steve's body and forces him to declare war on the new Doom Patrol. For months, his actions and words weren't his own. But eventually, he's freed from the grip of Mr. Nobody. Around the same time, he gets reunited with Rita and the other members of the original Doom Patrol. And it's only at this point that Steve Dayton begins to be in a place where he can work on himself and his many, many issues.
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wanderingmind867 · 15 hours ago
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Percy: Nico isn’t answering our Iris messages
Will: I’ll call
Percy: Annabeth and I have already tried six times each-
Nico: Hello?
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I feel like I haven't made many posts in the past little bit, but that's because i've been relaxing after my therapy appointment (which went well), and because i've been considering trying to use my 3DS again. It still works, and I still have games I can use for it. Since i'm still hung up on comics, I was considering using the Scribblenauts DC game that I own. I never, ever completed that thing. The game was fun, but also really weird. It sometimes made me uncomfortable, which probably says something more about my constantly frayed nerves than about the game itself. But still, I might pull it back out and just look at it again. It has an odd amount of characters in it, so maybe i'll mess around with that. But that's the main reason why i haven't posted much lately.
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wanderingmind867 · 19 hours ago
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My last two members of the Crime Syndicate: The Aresian Barbarian and Sea King:
Aresian Barbarian (J'edd J'arkus): In the anti-matter universe, mars is actually known as ares. All the planets in the solar system (besides earth) have greek names instead of roman names. This means mars is actually ares, and martians are known as aresians. This is a good warning of how cruel the story of J'edd J'arkus is going to be.
On the planet ares, leadership positions are determined via trial by combat. J'edd became king solely because he had no morality. He ripped his own daughter in half to get at the throne. He stabbed the previous king and ate him alive. Name a barbaric practice, and holy emperor j'arkus has probably done it. He killed his wife, let people sexually assault his children (and then killed them), tried to kill his brother (but failed because m'as'nijan j'arkus managed to escape to earth). Emperor J'arkus was a monstrous tyrant.
But then he shot too high. Just like the saturnians on the positive matter earth, j'edd led his aresians in a conquest of the galaxy. But unlike the saturnians, his conflict failed a little bit quicker. He managed to form an alliance with the kronians (inhabitants of kronos/saturn), but an allegiance of every planet in the solar system (besides earth and aphrodite/venus), led to ares being absolutely devastated. 90% of them were wiped out. And the ones that lived (like j'edd) were taken to the planet zeus, there to be tortured by the zanes for all time.
But after many long years of torment at zanian hands, j'edd escaped. He led a violent, bloodthirsty riot (ripping heads off guards and stealing their possessions), and it gave him the perfect smokescreen under which to escape zeus. Knowing ares was now a dead planet (and that no other planet would give him amnesty for his inhumane actions), j'edd flew to earth (the only planet in the solar system he never attempted to invade before).
On earth, j'edd hid himself by using his shapeshifting powers to make himself appear to be "Jebediah Marcus", a humble politician from Washington. Jebediah Marcus became a darling of washington politics, currying favour and earning people's trust, and it was all part of a long con scheme by j'edd to allow himself to take over globe. But before he got that chance, a bunch of filthy supervillians began popping out of the woodwork! Ultraman, Owlman, Superwoman, Sea King! It was enough to drive him mad! This is his planet! His! He had half a nerve to skin them alive and burn them as trophies to his lord ares!
But then J'edd had a better thought. He should infiltrate the ranks of these other villians, and use them to facilitate the founding of an earth based empire. Once he's done that, then he'll betray them and make himself sole ruler of earth! To do this, j'edd lets himself meet with Ultraman. He introduces himself as "The Aresian Barbarian, last of my kind (even though he knows that his brother is hiding from him on earth). He spins a tale of woe, about how he was exiled from his home because he was "too authoritative". And by working his way into ultraman's ear like this, he becomes second in command of the Crime Syndicate.
After the Justice League Canada arrive on the anti-matter earth and thoroughly demoralize the Crime Syndicate, J'edd snaps. He begins secretly plotting to join kronos and quit the Crime Syndicate. And he gets his wish. When Kronos/Saturn begins assembling an army, J'edd is recruited into it's ranks. So with him, Owlman, Power Ring and Johnny Quick gone, the Crime Syndicate membership dwindles down to three.
As for what happens to J'edd: his brother m'as'nijan flees to the positive matter earth and warns the Justice League Canada of Kronos/Saturn's attack. And when it's j'edd's turn to attack the earth, martian manhunter, jemm, son of saturn, ma'alefa'ak and m'as'nijan all confront j'edd. And together, their combined might turns this aresian barbarian into a broken tyrant, to be locked away in a cold, dark dungeon for all time.
Sea King (Alistair Curry): Alistair Curry's father was a brilliant marine biologist, fired for his insane beliefs about creating merfolk through human experimentation. Desperate to prove his theories to the world, he used his young son Alistair as a living test dummy. He did horrible things to his son, all to prove his stupid research theories. For example, he made artificial gills for his son by cutting them into his son's flesh. He also performed some unethical brain surgeries to give his son the ability to telepathically communicate with fish.
Driven absolutely mad by these experiments, alistair eventually snapped and killed his own father. In the proceeding struggle, his father's underwater laboratory blew up, and it led Alistair to lose a hand and the sight in one of his eyes. But with a bloody stump for a right hand and a glassy right eye, alistair swam off to live amongst the fish in the deep ocean.
Eventually, Alistair ran into the kingdom of Atlantis. But this ocean was only big enough for one! He declared a one man war on atlantis, and used his control of the ocean creatures to massacre the entire royal family of atlantis (except for prince orm, who narrowly managed to escape). From here, he became the new king of atlantis, forcing a woman to marry him under threat of death.
Now Alistair is the Sea King, emperor of atlantis and the world's greatest pirate, a champion of the high seas. Anyone who dares to go exploring the oceans of the anti-matter earth has to answer to him, and he's not exactly friendly. Of all the crime syndicate members, he's definitely the most violent and unhinged of the whole lot (followed up narrowly by the Aresian Barbarian).
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Power Ring I (Harold Jordan): First, we need to discuss the ring of volthoom, and I need to explain who volthoom is. Millenia ago, on one of the many positive matter universes, there was a warlock named volthoom. A power hungry man, volthoom tapped into the very energies of the cosmos themselves, and made himself a being of pure energy. Acting as a virtual god, he attempted to bend the multiverse to his whims. He nearly succeeded, until the collective forces of the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor worked together to contain him. He was that big a threat.
Once they'd defeated him and stripped him of most of his power, they held a trial. And at the end of the trial, the monitor deemed him guilty. And in yet another example of the monitor dishing out indignity after indignity onto the anti-monitor, volthoom's punishment was to be banished forever to the anti-matter universe. The Anti-Monitor didn't want any part in this power mad warlock, though. He hated him and hated the monitor for pushing volthoom onto him. So he made sure volthoom would be punished in his own way.
More specifically, the anti-monitor ripped volthoom's soul out of his body, and then trapped his soul inside of a ring. Volthoom was now just a genie in a lamp, with no real physical form of his own. He would always be a servant to other men's wills. Or well, that was the plan. But the anti-monitor made a few mistakes, and these mistakes allowed volthoom to continue to flourish. Because while volthoom may no longer have a physical form, he's still got a mind. And he's capable of whispering in men's ears, tricking them into using his powers.
And if those men are weak enough, volthoom will literally eat them from the inside out. He steals their energies and burns them up, and it powers himself. If he steals enough energy from enough people, he can feasibly reconstruct his body and make another play for multiversal domination again. So for centuries volthoom's cursed ring has been traveling through the anti-matter universe, stealing men's souls and energies.
And now we get to talk about Harold Jordan. Harold Jordan was a janitor at the ferris aircraft company. He applied to be a pilot years before, but he was consistently rejected for his inability to stay calm while in the cockpit. Angry and bitter about being just a two-bit janitor for a stupid plane company, Harold was amazed when he suddenly saw a spaceship crash out in the fields near the airstrip late one night.
Inside the spaceship lay a dying alien, volthoom's latest victim. This man convinces Harold to take the ring by whispering sweet promises into his ear. You'll have unlimited power, the adoration of millions, you'll finally be a hero… Desperate to believe the words the dying alien said to him, Harold eagerly puts the ring on his finger. And this was the beginning of the end of his normal life.
Because volthoom now had a new host, a new victim to drain energy from. For a few years he hid his existence from Harold, though. For a good few years, the name of Power Ring actually meant heroic things to the people of the anti-matter earth. He was actually a good man doing good things. But then…things began to spiral out of control. Whenever Harold tried to get the ring to do things, it wouldn't do it. It began demanding complete obedience, and it would haunt him with horrifying visions until he complied.
So by the time Power Ring joins the Crime Syndicate, Harold Jordan is an utterly broken man. A spineless coward who can barely close his eyes without seeing volthoom's terrifying visions, harold isn't even in real control of his actions anymore. He hates most of the others in the crime syndicate, but he has no backbone to stand up for himself. And he's also beginning to suffer from a constant fever, a sign that volthoom is beginning to burn him up and consume him…
Although it isn't all bad for Harold. When the Justice League Canada ends up on the anti-matter earth, he manages to follow them back to the positive matter universe (volthoom ordered him to, seeing it as a chance to begin taking over the multiverse again). But once in the positive matter universe, the Justice League are able to figure out that the ring is controlling his every action. And they successfully manage to free him of it's influence. Still, volthoom and his ring escape from the league's headquarters before anyone can destroy it completely. So he'll probably find a new host before too long…
But in the meantime, Harold Jordan has his life back. Sure, the positive matter earth is different from the negative matter earth he used to call home. But he's finally free of that damned rings influence. Maybe he can finally begin to live again. But seeing as he's homeless, I see him living with the Justice League as he goes to therapy and tries to work on his lingering issues.
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wanderingmind867 · 20 hours ago
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Johnny Quick (Barton Allen): First, let's discuss Speed Juice. A young college research assistant named Jason Garricks discovered speed juice on complete accident one day. Jason accidentally created it and dosed himself with it, and he realized just how great it truly was. A drug that increases people's strength and endurance by giving them superspeed. Jason realized he could use it to make himself a star, so he pumped himself full of speed juice and took on the identity of Johnny Quick (not to be confused with the postive matter superhero johnny quick)!
For a few years, Jason lived the high life as a superhero. It was amazing, being worshipped for all he did. But then he discovered that speed juice had some horrible side effects. Namely, it's more addictive than even a mixture of cocaine and heroin. Once you take that first hit, everything feels so fast and speedy. Coming down, you feel like everyone is moving at a snail's pace. You begin to feel both overstimulated and understimulated. It's hellish. So to overcompensate, Jason began taking the juice every hour. But then everything felt too fast. His muscles began to atrophy and his internal body parts began to burn up. He was killing himself by being a hero.
So…this ends exactly as you'd expect it to. Jason Garricks ended up killing himself. The police found his body in the back alleys of central city one day, still in his johnny quick costume. It was a real mess. But the funny thing was…when they forced down their nausea and actually searched the body, the police found that his vials of speed juice were missing.
And this brings us to Barton Allen. Barton had a horrible childhood. When he was 9 years old, his mom died. He was the first one to find the body, and that image messed him up. It still haunts him at night. After that, he called the police, and they conducted a through investigation. And after roughly two years of investigation, they were successfully able to convict Barton's father for the crime of murdering his wife.
Since Barton had no other family members who wanted him, he ended up in an orphanage by age 11. Until he turned 18 and legally became an adult, barton was raised in the orphanage. It was a hellish environment, and it bred resentment in him. Tired and apathetic, he became numb to all feeling. A sluggish teen with an attitude problem, he eventually ended up getting himself kicked out of the orphanage when he was 16.
Now homeless, barton sunk even further into his feelings of apathy and depression. His life from the years of 16-20 were all a blur to him. It was only a week or two after his 21st birthday that things began to turn around for him. One night, barton found the emaciated from of jason garricks dying in the gutter. Barton heard his story about speed juice, and then watched as the light flickered from his eyes. But when he heard cop sirens coming, he stole the speed juice off jason's body, drank it and ran like the wind!
Just like jason, barton ends up hooked on the speed juice. But unlike barton, the juice became more than an addiction for him. The juice became a reason to live. It made him feel alive, in a way he hadn't felt alive since he was nine! So he rapidly worked to develop a cure for the internal organ failure problem with the juice. Holing himself up in an abandoned chemistry lab, barton worked around the clock until he finally perfected the formula. And eventually, he did it!
He found a way to prevent the speed juice from killing him, and then he proceeded to hook millions of IVs into himself, so his body could constantly be full of speed juice. And then he turned to petty theft, because the thrill of the chase was all that seemed to bring him pleasure anymore. He took on the name of Johnny Quick, and he became the world's most notorious bandit.
This is what eventually leads him to the Crime Syndicate. They asked him to join because they admired his skill as one of the world's seven biggest crooks, and he was too busy experiencing a drug high to ever listen to a word anyone said there. Him and Power Ring were the only members of the league that got along in a really genuine way, since they were both lonely, miserable men just trying to cope with life. Harold would cry as volthoom made him kill, while Barton would be comforting him while high on the world's worst drug.
But eventually, the justice league canada ends up on the anti-matter earth. And barton and power ring follow them back through a portal into the positive matter universe. And as a strange twist of fate, speed juice doesn't work in the positive matter universe. So for the first time in forever, barton's lost his life blood. And it drives him completely catatonic. For months he just lays in a coma at the justice league canada's ottawa headquarters. But eventually he wakes up. And then him and harold try to settle down and live normal lives on the positive matter earth, finally free of their pain and/or addictions…
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Owlman (Thomas Wayne Jr.): Bruce Wayne's older brother on the anti-matter earth, Thomas Jr was always the more sensitive of the two boys. While Bruce loved adventure shows and wanted to be a hero, beating up the bad guys and saving the day, thomas loved nature and birds and wanted to use the family fortune to open museums and galleries; improving people's lives through peaceful means.
When Thomas was 10, he saw his parents and his younger brother killed right in front of him. His brother was eight. eight. And that did something to him. When Thomas then learned at age 18 that that his father was a mob boss who ruined people's lives and worked alongside people like the falcones, thomas lost it even more. Whatever tenuous grasp on childhood innocence and sanity he had died that day. Coincidentally, that was the same day his butler lost an eye in a suspicious accident.
Giving in to the darkness within him, thomas decided to follow in his father's footsteps. He used his childhood love of birds as inspiration for becoming the supervillian known as the Owlman. The Owlman stalked Gotham's streets, and did whatever necessary to ensure he was the last man standing. Other mobsters dropped dead. Reformist politicians got themselves poisoned. Anything to ensure the Owl was all anyone saw when they pictured Gotham.
Now, the Owlman is one of the founding members of the Crime Syndicate. When america's seven worst criminals pooled their collective resources to conquer the globe, Owlman was right there at the table. Everyone knows to fear the Owl. Everybody shivers at the thought of meeting him. But nobody knows about the little boy who's still hiding inside.
Although Thomas Wayne Jr buried his innocence and tried to become the man he knew his father wanted him to be, there's still a hurt ten year old boy deep inside. You can see it in the way Owlman defends his Talons, often torturing and killing anyone who dares look at them the wrong way. You can see it in his obsession with birds, something he never lost from childhood. You can even see it in the way he always leaves flowers on his brother's grave. Bruce was eight when he died, and Thomas still misses his brother…
After the fight between Owlman and The Question, Owlman's whole belief system is shattered. The Question managed to get under his skin, by telling him that being a criminal isn't what his younger brother would have wanted for him. Think of Bruce, Thomas. Think of him. And from that moment on, Owlman began to have second thoughts about the Crime Syndicate. Since Power Ring and Johnny Quick had already fled to the positive matter world, Owlman ends up deliberately sabotaging the plans of the other four remaining crime syndicate members.
And so by the time the Anti-Monitor leads the Anti-Matter Universe into battle against the Positive Matter Universe (and consequently pits the lords of order against the lords of chaos), Owlman is revealed to be leading a popular resistance movement against the crime syndicate on the anti-matter earth, a movement dedicated to his dead brother bruce. It's this sense of order and justice amidst chaos and injustice that sees owlman recruited into the ranks of the Lords of Order.
What Thomas discovers, however, is that Bruce is alive on the Positive Matter Universe! But the positive matter bruce gave in to the mental manipulations of supervillians, had a nervous breakdown, became a paranoid wreck and tried to kill his teammates. Now, he's a member of the army of the Lords of Chaos. And to add insult to injury, Bruce doesn't even remember Thomas (on the positive matter universe, thomas wayne jr was a stillborn baby before bruce was born)! This means that two brothers are at odds once again, one on the side of order and one on the side of chaos.
I don't really know what would happen between Thomas Wayne Jr and his brother Bruce, but I know they definitely both survive the crisis. Most characters would survive my crisis. The biggest ramifications of the crisis would be the Anti-Monitor forcing the people of the Positive Matter Universe to respect him, plus a restoration of DC's multiverse (and a loosened gateway between realities, allowing for more intercompany crossovers).
So Owlman and Batman both survive. But since I don't like Batman very much, I have been giving Owlman some more favourable treatment here. Batman's the good guy who goes bad (at least for a while). Owlman is a bad guy who goes good.
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