So, luthor and marvel have been on the brain lately. For context this is inside of my chilly batson au. Luthor has a quick visit to fawcett to see if this marvel person is a alien kryptonian or not!! Plus an excuse to describe fawcett is always something I'm down for!
When the league finds out that Captain Marvel is a kid, why doesn't Billy just, do a bit of a half lie?
Oh yeah technically I (Marvel) came into being like 3 years ago at the rock of eternity, I usually use this form to go around as a human.
He doesn't mention that the 10 to 12 year old is his real form, and doesn't correct the league when they assume that Marvel came into being a full adult, not unlike Athena. And wait, didn't Zeus have shapeshifting abilities? Hm....
Billy is honestly very shocked that this is somehow working?? The league thinks he's an adult still, just uses younger form to try and figure out how humans work and have a childhood??
Cheat Code #2 for accommodating disabled characters in sci-fi/fantasy:
How you aid a disability depends on if it's a new development or had always existed.
i.e.: If someone's lost their legs to a griffin biting them off last week, giving them steampunk prosthetic legs is a good aid. There's something they can't do, that they very recently could, that they need to learn to work around. The prosthetic legs still need an adjustment period to learn how to use them, but your character knows how legs should work and can figure it out more easily.
If someone lost their legs because, as a child, they wandered away from the space field trip and got partially eaten by a carnivorous plant, then it depends. Prosthetic legs can technically work, but the longer the character was without legs, the harder it'll be to re-learn how to use them. You might want to go with bionic legs for short distances, but a hover chair for daily use.
If someone was born without legs, then prosthetic legs are more hindrance than they're worth. Your character has never had legs, and has no idea how they're supposed to work.
Imagine if you're in a world of centaurs; you're given prosthetic hind legs, and now expected to be able to climb up cliffs with the grace of a mountain goat. It's a whole new skill you'd have to learn, and you would get annoyed with it very fast; how are they supposed to sync with the legs you already have? How are you supposed to balance? You can't feel anything, you don't know how much space it occupies.
Someone who's always been disabled doesn't need the thing they were born without, they need aid that lets them do what everyone else can in a way they're familiar with. If your character has always been deaf, glasses with subtitles appearing on them are infinitely more useful than aids that let them hear, because hearing when you've always had silence is going to have a steep learning curve and be ridiculously overwhelming.
Your rule of thumb?
Try to give them something they're used to.
Note: This is different with very small children, because they're already learning how to use every part of them. If a toddler in your sci-fi was born without legs, they can be taught to use bionic legs at a very young age, but it has to start early or it'll run into the problems above.
Obsessed with AO3 writers, who are a particularly fascinating subspecies of homo sapien.
i am my sole audience and 1940 billy seeing fnaf beatbox cracks me up just a smidge
magpie-moving
before you see something and recoil at the price, be it handmade items, services, art, whatever. when you see something and you think, "i wouldnt pay more than $15 for that," you seriously have to ask yourself: if i were offered that same $15, would i make this object? would i spend the time to teach myself this skill to get this done, for $15? would i do this service for that same $15? would that be worth my time and effort?
yeah, that handmade necklace is $140. you might only be willing to pay $40 for that same necklace, but would you make it for $40 if someone asked you to?
you want to pay the babysitter fifteen bucks for the three hours she's watching your child. but would you honestly do that for $15? would you go into a stranger's house and change their baby's diaper and care for its needs, for $15?
you think its ridiculous that this artist is charging $30 for an icon commission. would you spend years catching up to their skill level to make that same drawing, start using your skill to make some extra cash, and then spend three hours on a drawing just to get $15?
would you be willing to work for $5 an hour?
no?
then don't be angry when someone else won't.
you don't have buy the service, it's okay if some things aren't within your budget or comfort zone, and it's also okay if the product isn't worth that much money to you. but do not be angry. be glad, because you know of another person out there who isn't being exploited for their time.
goes the same for writers and their services!
You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.
“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”
“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”
How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.
Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.
First photo of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Agnes Mary Clerk:
For comparison: the latest photo of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Telescope in infrared:
Firstly, I'm not letting this die in the notes:
Next, the reason the Red Eye is in the wrong spot in the first photo is because old telescope photos were upside down. I am not sure why they didn't flip them, tbh
And the stretched look to the storm is because it used to be much bigger: big enough to fit 3 Earth's.
This post has gotten quite a bit of this question:
In our visual spectrum, Jupiter is reds and browns.
This is due to the hydrogen, helium, water droplets, ice crystals and ammonia crystals in its atmosphere. It also is home to raging storms and cyclones, giving it the distinctive stripes.
The infrared picture in blue was taken by the James Webb Telescope. Infrared is invisible to the human eye, but when adjusted into the visual spectrum in the photograph it lets scientists see the different layers of Jupiter's clouds.
The blues are reflective of deeper main clouds, and the white of the famous eye is because it is reflecting too much sunlight.
You know how in one of the comics Captain Marvel singing is so good he accidentally takes someone's job. I was thinking what if that was a natural talent of Billy Batson. (I can't really imagine Black Adam singing) So instead of being a reporter Billy decides to be a singer and joins a small band, just to make a few extra dollars. But accidentally became a top hit and really famous, so famous that people in the justice league even talk about him and play his music.
Flash: Have you heard this new song, it's amazing!
Cap the creator of said song: No, never heard of it. (°∀°;)
Flash: Really? The singer's from Fawcett City and it's one of the top hits songs of the year!
Cap sweating: Really?!?!?
Shazamily 'n Batfamily hc because I'm bored!!
Billy
The one who introduced the whole family to the Wayne's, he gets along with Bruce and have a fatherly relationship, but he's not letting Bruce adopt him.
He gets along well with Dick and Tim, doesn't talk much to Jason, he goes with Damian to animal shelters to help, doesn't talk much with the girls but he thinks Steph is amazing and wants to learn some movements from Cass. Duke is his frenemie and Babs is the one he ask for advice.
Freddy
He's a Batman enthusiast and is always asking Bruce questions, is friends with Damian, he knows Tim's Robin history by core (he jokes about how he would have done the same if he lived in Gotham), ask questions to Dick and he has a massive crush on Jason. He thinks Steph is neat and has some inner jokes with her, Cass scares him a bit by how quiet she can be, and Duke is his video game partner to kick Billy's ass. Haven't spoke much to Babs but thinks she's amazing.
Also, Alfred gaves him a Tupperware with cookies and other treats to share with the Shazamily, but he eats almost all of it on the way home when Rosa picks him up from the Wayne manor.
(When he's allowed to go to the Batcave, Bruce handcuffs him because he keeps touching everything. Literally everything.)
Mary
Oh, she loves all of them! Because she was the first child, she gets along well with Dick, even patrols with him from time to time.
Damian reminds him of Billy when he first arrived home, speaks with Jason from time to time and she's also worried about Tim's coffee addiction. She gets along well with Duke.
Also, she's always invited to Cass, Steph and Babs' girls night. She's the one in charge of the snacks.
Darla
She's friendly with everyone, but doesn't talk much to anyone besides Steph, who shares a passion for the color purple and silly stuff. When she goes to the manor with the other's, she goes straight to the kitchen to see Alfred cooking, and sometimes he allows her to help him!
Pedro
Little guy right here has a massive crush on Dick !! Like, the stuttering and blushing type, but tries to act cool around him. He plays sports with Jason and Tim, likes to see Damian training. Duke is the one he gets along with the most. Haven't spoke much with the girls though, but Cass is his favorite one.
Eugene
Ever since he got to met Barbara, he spends time with her, learning how she keeps tracking of every movement that is done in Gotham, aspires to be as good with tech as her.
He spends time with Tim too, mostly when Tim is working on the Batcomputer. He's the only one of the Shazamily allowed to touch it.
Plus:
Rosa and Victor feel really in touch with Bruce, who's an orphan like them. They think they're very similar, keeping in mind the amount of children Bruce adopted too.
Rosa shares cooking recipes with Alfred, and from time to time they have a friendly competition on how makes the best dessert. The kids are the judges and it's always a tie.
A question, Will you have Bette Kane (the Gotham Flamebird) appear in your Dick X Kara fanfic?
Hi!
So I don't have any plans to include Bette in this particular story though I would love to write about her in the future. (she totally deserves some more love!)
The Legend of Nightwing and Flamebird is actually a gift fic so I wanted to focus on the characters that the person I'm gifting it to was most interested in (Dick and Kara). Unfortunately Bette (and the various other people who have been Nightwing and Flamebird throughout comics history) didn't really fit into the story we came up with.
Being asexual is that everyone on planet earth is just some guy
You know how you feel looking at some random guy you passed in the grocery store? That’s everyone on earth to me
Every time one of my friends intensely thirsts after someone they show me a picture and I’m like yeah that’s a human being alright.
I imagine Duke ties his laces and then tucks them in, that or they are elastic but I feel like elastic might fall off in a fight or something if he's hit hard.
(ID: An illustration, Signal crouches down and ties one of his boot's laces, his tongue is stuck out in concentration. The pallet is all yellow leaning. -ID End)
The Pevensie children are too old for their age.
Their mom notices, at the dinner table. She sees no nagging children, no stupid fights. She sees Lucy eating and speaking with perfect manners, Edmund analysing the economy and war with concerning skill, Susan being gracious but poised, like a diplomat.
Their father sees it in Peters eyes the first time they get into a fight. When he moves to punish Edmund for speaking out of turn, Peter calls him out on it. When his gaze meet his eldest son's, he's leveled by the war he sees behind it, the tensed muscle in his arm, the knuckles white around his knife. He's seen that before, in other soldiers. He doesn't know how to react.
Other children notice, too. Talking to all the Pevensie kids at the same time is like being the only one left out of a secret, and the way they touch and tease each other speaks of a history far deeper than their polite demeneor lets on. And when they walk they fall in line, as if there is a natural hierarchy between them.
The first time anyone picks a fight with Edmund, Peter comes home with a three week suspension and blood around his mouth. He looks more alive than you've seen him in weeks.
When Susan gets back in the pool after Narnia, she wins all the contests. Coaches can't explain how to beat her, because they don't understand how she's doing it, either. She seems to almost disappear when underwater.
Lucy, always gay and golden-haired, starts dancing, and never misses a step. She moves with an elegance that no 10 year old should have, and all the girls want to be friends with her
Edmund soon becomes the best student in his faculty. He always seems to know the right thing to say, and teachers laud his ability to think through complex problems. His mouth does get him in trouble sometimes, but the boy seems uncatchable, always talking his way through the cracks. And if not?
No one actively fears Peter, but everyone is a little scared of him sometimes. He's tall for his age, sure, but there is something else, some other air that seems to give him an authority far beyond what's normal for a teenage boy. He's nice enough, but teachers can't stand it, and bullies learn very quickly that pissing him off means missing teeth and black eyes.
The Pevensies are not quite inhuman, but not fully mortal, either
I’ve seen a lot of people say that the Demeter section is the part most weakened by the daily format, but I couldn’t disagree more.
Particularly with the overlap with Mina’s section; we get to see how her anxiety and dread builds just as the Demeter’s dread turns to terror and despair. You can see how Dracula’s presence drains the life from wherever he is and sends a wave of ill omen ahead of him.
Mina sits reading Jonathan’s letter over and over, sure there’s something wrong with it and something terrible has happened to him, while at the same time the Captain bottles up his notes, unsure if any living human will ever read them and learn the truth of what happened.
I am honestly not sure I've ever really read the Demeter section properly before. There's the Correspondent's long, preamble to get through, and I was always like "Yeah yeah, I don't care about these walk-on no-name roles, where are The Characters??" I think the daily format humanises the Demeter crew immensely. Prolonging the agony gives huge power to the horror film, "and then there were none" of it all. And simply by omitting the correspondent's spoiler that yeah, these people are all dead, it allows you to half-hope right until the end that the Captain, at least might be spared. (And by humanising the Demeter, how it monster-ises Dracula! How did we have to tolerate so many sexyman versions of this character for so long? When you know how long he can apparently survive without any sustenance at all... and how well just one victim sustains him ... this was pure cruelty for cruelty's sake.)
Also, I know Alasdair Stuart slightly, and he was superb in this! Hearing the poor Captain gradually unravel day by day was heartbreaking.
That’s such a good point about when this segment appears in the book—it’s so much later than it is now! Placing it in chronological order puts the Captain of the Demeter’s experiences on the level of Jonathan’s. We move from one victim Dracula toyed with and discarded to the second, and while the account is briefer, there’s no framing that it matters less or that his story is secondary to the others’. Even the ending is similar to Jonathan’s last entry!
Just one more unfortunate soul just trying to do his job and losing hope bit by bit, and one last stand in hopes of dying human.
