We Interrupt This JLI Content for Some JLI Content: SECRET ORIGINS #33 (JLI 30)
Nov. 26th, 2025 07:57 am
I planned for the next part in this series to be the Max Lord spotlight in Justice League International #24, but that’ll come early next week.
Warning for some discussion of age-inappropriate relationships and creators with tainted histories.
DC’s Secret Origins series did all JLI-themed origin stories for three issues, after doing the Justice Society and the original Justice League of America. Each issue had three stories: this one includes Mister Miracle and Oberon, Fire/Green Flame, and Ice/Icemaiden. No, Fire shouldn't be able to fly on that cover; just go with it. YES, ice-bridges are more Iceman's thing, JUST GO WITH IT.
Mister Miracle and Oberon’s story is “Escapism” by Mike Carlin and Don Heck. It’s a split-page compare-and-contrast exercise.
( You see, Mister Miracle is...TALL, and… )
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X-Mas: Days Of Future Past
Nov. 26th, 2025 08:01 amStill pondering the ending
Nov. 26th, 2025 07:51 amI ended up taking a few more days away from the cursed witch to edit the fic I'm writing for the
sunflower_auction, which was good both because I really like what this fic turned into!!! :D I hope the recip does, too! And I guess it gave my brain more time to think about the ending of the cursed witch.
And the conclusion is that it wasn't enough time and I still don't know. There are elements of the resolution I'm still unhappy with, no matter what angle I look at them from. And in the last post, I was thinking that removing the more obvious f/f bits to better set up the f/f/f endgame in the sequel would work well, but the thought of removing the most obvious queer bits and ending up with a story where the queer storylines are all subtext or background massively, unexpectedly bummed me out. Huge downer, mentally. So I'll have to work out a different solution. I'm playing with different ideas that could work to set things up without making it all look dusted and done (and may incidentally "solve" the "relationship is too perfect!" comment I got) but I have to be careful because it is the end of the story and I want a generally hopeful ending, and not something half-baked that leaves the reader frustrated and opens up new narrative question marks way too late in the story.
However, I can't leave the draft alone any longer. Letting projects hang midway is the worst thing for me, I just really struggle to pick them back up and remember all the threads I was working with. (One of the reasons I'm dreading returning to the Soul Thief because I was midway or two-thirds of the way through creating the post-draft outline back in January, and I don't know where to pick it back from. I can't just pick up that outline again. My brain will try to remember what I meant to do and think then, rather than just do it. Realistically, I probably should restart that step from scratch and treat all previous notes as extras, as if someone else (vriddy from the past!!) had taken a look at it and left me a few partial notes, but redoing work I know I already did before is also a bummer.) (I'll figure it out for sure, it's just more energy and way more activation energy required overall, so I really don't want to do that to myself when I can avoid it at all.)
So! My current plan is to leave the ending as is with no major changes. Just do the smaller edits, add the conversations and easy missing bits that had left people with questions in a couple of places, and leave myself good notes about the problems I see and the potential solutions I have in mind. Then let it rest, don't even do the pacing stuff yet. I'll do a reread in a couple months (without reading the notes!) and see what I think then.
That way, I'll still have a complete story to work with when it's time to hammer down the final pieces. I'm not overly worried either because I'm happy about the changes I made up to now (well, also worried it all sucks, but happy generally). It's only the epilogue and the last bit of the previous chapter I'm gnawing on, so about 5k words out of 57k that'll likely need reworking. Hopefully my brain comes up with something cool in the background XD Counting on you, brain!!
The First Appearance of Marvel's The Hulk...
Nov. 25th, 2025 09:48 pm( Read more... )
My students were testing me today
Nov. 25th, 2025 11:29 pmYes, I love music. Feel free to play it.
Girl from the back. Did you listen to Jacob Sartorius? (her table had suggested it last week when they were using him to remember the sartorius thigh muscle)
Yes, I liked it.
What did you listen to?
Ladies it's been a week, I don't remember.
Guy from the front - Do you like rap?
Me - it's not my favorite genre but I listen to some of it.
WHO?!?
Me - Oh, they're all old now. Run DMC, Will Smith when he was the Fresh Prince, Sir Mix-a-lot, Tone Loc
Guy from the front - do you like Nas?
Me - I've not really heard his stuff but I like Little Nas X
Them- holding up phone, what's this one? (obviously thinking Doc Dana is trying to be the cool prof who knows music)
two notes
me - Old Town Road, Little Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus
they start giggling. loudly.
The phone goes up. More music.
Me -three seconds in, Get Jiggy with it, Will Smith
More giggling.
Them - Dance
Me - Just play your music.
They weren't sure if it was a dare or not so the phone went away.
We had some of the other testing too. It's week 15 of 16 after all. Can't I have extra extra credit. No.
I NEED to pass this class to graduate. Can't I have a D? I'm desperate. 1. that's not passing 2. You have a 38%. No. I mean you'd have to sacrifice to the elder gods to pass at this point.
Let's hit the fannish fun for fannish 50 For one, sharing this again because Blake and this song hit the Billboard top 100 (at 98 but my god it's less than 3 minutes) Also move over Jessica Rabbit, another animated lounge singer is after your crown
( Finally getting my thoughts out on the last two Hazbin episodes. Spoilers abound and outside of the above song all the clips and songs are NSFW )
then i met you at the station in Ronkonkoma
Nov. 25th, 2025 11:33 pmTomorrow, I am heading out to the island for Thanksgiving, and also to see Baby Miss L. She turns three on Monday! THREE! How is that even possible!? (I'm sure I will be posting the same exact thing on Monday.) But they are not having a family party for her, just a friends party, since she has so many friends now! She is quite the social butterfly! So I've packed up the books and clothes that are her birthday gift (and 1 toy - a magnetic tile thing she can build things with), and tomorrow she can open her presents! They go to my niece's in-laws for Thanksgiving (so they spend Christmas day with us), so I might not see her on the day itself, but that's okay I guess, especially if I get some time tomorrow. Plus, middle niece is going to stop by since she is working on Thursday (she's a nurse), so I will get to see her as well. All in all a good time, I hope!
If I don't get a chance to post tomorrow, I hope everyone celebrating has a Happy Thanksgiving! And everyone else has a great Friday Eve, also known as Thursday.
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Addendum to yesterday's QOTD
Nov. 25th, 2025 08:39 pmAn addendum to yesterday's QOTD from Jim Henson: When I was growing up, Jim Henson meant a lot to me. Not only because I enjoyed the shows and movies he created, but also also because I knew that he was also from Mississippi, so seeing what he was able to accomplish gave me hope that I would be able to rise above my geographic origins and do something worthwhile. When seemingly everyone who produces everything you enjoy or admire is from someplace else, you cling that much harder to the one example you have who came from the same place you do.
Midwinter - Chapters 2 & 3 Mature Dark Shadows (1966) Alternate Universe Tale
Nov. 25th, 2025 05:45 pmMain Characters: Dr. Julia Hoffman, Gerard Stiles, Daphne Harridge, Barnabas Collins, Eliot Stokes. Other DS characters also feature in this story + original characters.
Relationships: Gerard / Daphne and Julia / Barnabas
Eras: 19th Century, 20th Century + Parallel Timeline
Title: Midwinter
Chapters: 2 & 3 / ?
Rating: Mature - Chapter 3 has a romantic scene of consensual lovemaking. Also featured is a devoted same sex couple.
Chapter 3 TW: Angst, suspense, references to past deaths, mysterious happenings and danger.
Word Count thus far: 6,640
Note: This story features some spoilers for DS 1970 / 1971 and 1840 storylines.
Summary for Chapter 2: On her first night at Collinwood, Julia is threatened by a mysterious evil.
Summary for Chapter 3: Collinwood has always been a place of mystery and secrets. When Julia meets Gerard Stiles and the rest of the Collins family, she also learns more of its dangers.
Links:
Chapter 2: archiveofourown.org/works/73731971/chapters/193193056#workskin
Chapter 3: archiveofourown.org/works/73731971/chapters/195188531#workskin
[AMNESTY: Challenge #53: Indulgent/Challenge #366: Repress] Original Poetry: 'Output'
Nov. 25th, 2025 05:34 pm[AMNESTY: Challenge #65: Guardian/Challenge #78: Out of Time] The Legend of Zelda: 'Out of Time'
Nov. 25th, 2025 04:36 pmFandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Breath of the Wild')
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to
( Out of Time )
30 in 30: Star Trek Novels
Nov. 25th, 2025 06:59 pmChapters: 6/6
Fandom: TOS - Dreadnought! - Diane Carey, TOS - Battlestations! - Diane Carey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Piper/Sarda
Characters: Piper, Sarda, Judd "Scanner" Sandage, Merete AndrusTaurus
Additional Tags: Friendship, Slice of Life, POV First Person
Summary:
Various stories, following the friends from their novel adventures
Even I have my limits on 'winging it'. Scanner had been inventive, but we still had deteriorating dilithium crystals and were in, to use a Terran saying, B.F.E. near Gorn space.
I didn't lose my temper, something Sarda reassured me across our bond was for the best. I left the bridge, went down to our poor engineer, found Dyson had beat me there.
"Tell me what to do; Sarda has the conn."
"Aye aye captain," Skellus said, giving me tools and directions.
It was going to mean minimal power, and Scanner had saved us, but we'd get back to base.
Nonfiction
Nov. 25th, 2025 06:13 pmCorinne Low, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours: ( self-help from an economist )
Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It: ( Doctorow in fine form )
Tim Wu, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity: ( Another account of enshittification )
Kim A. Wagner, Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History: ( written by the victors )
Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy: ( strange but true )
[Amnesty][Prompt #051: Shakespeare II] Original Work: Because You're You
Nov. 25th, 2025 03:45 pmFandom: Original Work (same characters as here)
Characters/Ship: male oc/nonbinary oc
Rating: G
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