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Because the previous post was getting out of hand.
My WIP is set in a sort of alternate 1900s Europe, where several young protagonists, royalty and otherwise, become entangled in the broader political situation but--perhaps more importantly--grapple with their own complicated interpersonal conflicts. Lots of character development, lots of dialogue, with a classic children’s story tone because that’s my literary background.
I am leaving the punctuation alone on the poetry because Poetic License,
but in general I don't advise...
ending line after line in ellipses...
like a middle-aged man texting...
why are all the short drama pieces so preachy
why don't dramatists know how to punctuate
why are they so addicted to comma splices
Good news: This year's literary magazine (which I am helping to edit again) so far does not contain any painfully poor-quality short stories.
Bad news: Poetry to the effect of "Sports exist. They are cool. Let me describe for you how they are played and how the goal is winning."
Disclaimer: These are not headcanons, they are observations from what we see in YJ 1998, and I am speaking strictly platonically.
(Young Justice 1998 #27)
I was looking for a panel for something else and ran across this one again.
This is such an important moment. The team is in the middle of playing baseball to save the universe, a very light-hearted shenanigan, but the narrative slows down to give us this more serious exchange that acknowledges recent events in Bart's solo comic.
All three boys had solo comics that were running at the same time as this one, and YJ seldom directly addressed the plotlines of those except when they directly affected YJ's plots. The conversation here is in reference to the Mercury Falling arc from Impulse.
I love the bond here between Bart and Cissie. Out of anyone else on the team, she's known him the longest, and she knows him well enough to notice and remark on a change in his behavior. And he's comfortable enough with her to open up about why. He doesn't typically discuss his home life with the team (as far as we're shown), but Cissie is safe to share serious things with.
Because she understands! She knows his family. She has met Max--he's the one who got involved when her mother was endangering her life. Bart, who tends to express feelings indirectly, doesn't need to spell out how much his father-figure means to him. Cissie knows. She's seen it.
And she knows what it's like to lose a father. Hers died when she was five. She can do more than sympathize; she cries with her friend.
This is a closeness that we don't get to see between him and anyone else in this particular series, and it's so important.
quick what is everyone doing right now
okay reblogging this again just to say that i love love love reading these,, like it's so incredible how we're all doing such vastly different things at the same time...ik it's an obvious thing but it's also insane to think about.
I do not have the time and energy for this now, but eventually I would like to do a series of posts on The Children and how they were originally canonically depicted versus the fanon understanding of them because yikes there are some major discrepancies. Going to take me forever to get to it though.
When you get this, you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to
Tagged by @zelzahdarkcloak. Thank you!
I'm a little amused by the wording of this--as opposed to songs that I only pretend to listen to?--but here are a few that are recent listens:
Felt like drawing Kiro in a fencing pose.
I was feeling like the redraw sketch didn't have the surliness that Sadie really demands, but then I started slapping loose colors on, had a ton of fun, and decided I Like It Anyway.
Those of you who are recently here for the comicsposting:
😶
do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.
Fell asleep this afternoon and my brain decided to give me a dream that wanted to be a horror movie, set on my campus, and make me unable to move or speak once I figured out what was going on and now I will never forget this plot o_O
I am not a fic writer but why hasn't anyone written about Greta after the end of YJ 1998 as she adjusts to having a corporeal form and no powers again, processes her trauma, deals with the death of her father and the institutionalization of her mother, attends boarding school with Cissie, works on her fractured relationships with each of her friends, and generally tries to figure out life now that she's been given a second chance at it? There's so much untapped potential there.
Hey, love seeing more love for Superboy, do you know if Kon and Secret had any moments, i think they would have a very wholesome friendship
Hmmm I can’t recall if they ever had like a 1 on 1 scene, except one time secret got angry and yelled at kon to leave robin alone or smth (except that kon turned out to be the imposter Match iirc)
Obviously, kon was there to help break secret out, and personally I think they could relate about being stuck in a lab and probably has helpful tips for her to calm down when she’s anxious about it :) also I think he’d make her feel welcome and like she belongs
Forgive me if this is an intrusion, but I happened to see this and can go in depth into what we get of Kon and Secret's interactions in the comics. She has a different dynamic with him than she does with the other boys, and it's a bit sad because there is potential for them to be closer that doesn't happen because of personal hurt that keeps them from being willing to fully connect.
Oh my gosh tysm for this analysis, it’s been a while so I forgot a lot of moments from the run, so this is really helpful!! I wish we got to see more of them, especially after the ending and everything that built up to it. They do have similarities and points that they could connect on, but wow I didn’t think too much about the fact that kon’s personality (which contrasts a lot with Greta) and the way he also closes off his emotions to others prevented them from being closer than they could’ve been ☹️ they were so close…maybe if the run was allowed to be longer…
There's a brilliant post about how names of superheroes created decades ago reflect the naming trends of their eras, and what the names would be if given the equivalents in popularity in 2021. (E.g. Bruce would be Eli, Dick would be James/Jimmy, Barbara would be Isla, Stephanie would be Mia, Clark would be Kyler [???], etc. etc.)
I was curious about some other characters but didn't want to derail the original post. So here you go, a list of arbitrarily chosen characters and their name equivalents if they had been created in 2021.
Was reminded of this post and can't believe I forgot a very important person!
My brother went to an antique shop today and managed to come out of it with the most Rebekah print in existence:
In Superboy 1994 #65, Kon is missing after having been sent into hypertime, and Cadmus has given up on him and is looking into hiring a new field agent in replacement. Numerous applicants show up, and so does Young Justice. They're worried about their absent friend and want to make sure he's okay.
The whole team is there...but not quite. Note who's missing.
