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isfjmel-phleg · 13 hours

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#okay really niche joke sorry but this was basically Philip Ransford's original plan in The Candymakers

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isfjmel-phleg · 16 hours

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(Justice League Task Force #26)

The amount of time that Will spends facepalming during this issue in which the Task Force has an encounter with Impulse cracks me up.

Instead of dealing with Will's chronic insubordination a few issues later by beating him up and firing him, J'onn should have been like "oh, you like to be in charge? you want to be the leader? okay then, congratulations, you are now responsible for the Titans. have fun with Impulse, Damage, and Terra." Because Will probably would have found that to be an even worse punishment, and the outcome would have been hilarious.

#comicsposting again #WM: broken bitter and alone #BA: fastest attitude alive

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isfjmel-phleg · 21 hours

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Bad news for all you authors out there who are dreaming of publishing your WIP titled simply College Algebra--approximately 80 gazillion people have beat you to it.

Source: the number of times this afternoon that I have had to try to track down records for ISBN-less books with this incredibly generic title

#random personal stuff #this is a joke I am joking #but really there are an absurd number of books in existence with this title #and other painfully generic titles #these math people aren't very imaginative #update: bless you O visionary who titled your book College Algebra AND Trigonometry

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isfjmel-phleg · 1 day

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It has taken me this long to realize that yes, the fact that Tamett is from a country that has been conquered and subjugated and had its culture and language suppressed and been expected to assimilate and to be glad and grateful to be part of--but never truly one with or accepted by--the conquering nation until many of its people conclude that the safest thing they can do is keep silent and keep their heads down and try to appease....that's a parallel for his situation as Josiah's companion.

If I ever write anything thoughtful, it is entirely by accident.

#The Blackberry Bushes #The Blackberry Bushes OC facts #Tamett Lockridge #somehow I ended up writing part of his conversation with Odren this morning #and the way Odren talks to him...oh he's awful #I really want the reader to see how Tamett is treated day after day year after year #the things people say to him #and how he holds so much back #what's going on in his head is strikingly different from what he says out loud #(which at this point is very little)#he's suppressing a lot of anger trying to deny to himself that it's even there #and that's going to go about as well as you would expect #especially with how Josiah treats him #and I'm starting to wonder if even Ayra and Ateva unconsciously treat him differently in some ways because he's Noriberian #they've all been raised with the assumption that Noriber is inferior to Lienne #is just a conquered territory that exists to prop up Lienne #and that all its people have been happy to assimilate into Liennese culture #and the girls do genuinely like and get along with Tamett!#but these attitudes would be pretty ingrained into them and impossible to avoid #...so what would that look like?

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isfjmel-phleg · 2 days

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I have writing group tomorrow and I need to work more on this chapter--there's no way I can finish drafting it by tomorrow, but I'd like to get it a little further. Not feeling it.

Write your own dang story, Tamett. You do not pay me enough (i.e. anything) to be your biographer.

#random personal stuff #I got him out of the hallway with Josiah and into Odren's study #now I have to put him through this uncomfortable conversation #Tamett is hard to write #Odren is hard to write #they should not be allowed to talk to each other #how about he just gets dismissed and sent home and sure that's not going to be easy on the family financially but they manage #and he leads a quiet uneventful life with his family happily ever after the end that's all there is there isn't any more #how about that #he'd like that

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isfjmel-phleg · 2 days

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😶

#random personal stuff #sometimes social interactions make you feel excited and loved and like you could take on the world #and then others make you feel like something's been taken out of your soul with like a melon scooper or something #when it's not supposed to be like that #sometime I'll figure out why #anyway there's dishes to do and objectively no reason to cry (right?)#if you want some exceedingly mediocre garlic bread I've got leftovers

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isfjmel-phleg · 2 days

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I appreciate this panel of Bart introducing Judy Garrick (who has been lost to time since the 1960s) to video games...

(Jay Garrick: The Flash #6)

...because it's an indication that they will be friends. Gaming together has always been the way to this boy's heart.

(New Titans #118 / Impulse #12, 20, 22, 26, 46, 89 / The Flash 1987 #139)

We never see him and Max playing video games together, which is indicative of how difficult it can be for the two of them to understand each other. They care about each other a lot; it's just that they tend to struggle to speak each other's language.

#comicsposting again #BA: fastest attitude alive #apparently Judy has been a controversial character for the crime of being biologically related to the Garricks #and sure that does complicate past story lines #but she's an enjoyable character and I'm interested to see the dynamic she might develop with the rest of the family #she and Bart as gaming buddies is a good start

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isfjmel-phleg · 2 days

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I actually like it when I get called "ma'am" because it means that the college dudes apparently think I'm a real adult and not one of their peers. Very refreshing.

#random personal stuff #everyone is all 'oh you'll appreciate looking younger than you are someday'#and that's all very well but in the meantime you have to deal with not being taken seriously

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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Audio ask: 22!

22. I’ll talk about something that makes me happy

#asks #brown-little-robin #thank you!#random personal stuff

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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Voice asks: #5! :)

5. I’ll talk about what I did today

#asks #perhaps-mr-collins-has-a-cousin #thank you!#random personal stuff

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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3 and 6 for the voice asks?

3. I’ll talk about my favorite outfit

6. I’ll talk about something I’m obsessed with/currently interested in

#asks #scarvenartist #thank you!#random personal stuff #please excuse the intrusion of a notification on my phone in the second one

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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3 for the voice ask💜.

3. I’ll talk about my favorite outfit

#asks #cakeyouareoh #thank you!#random personal stuff

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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Voice Ask: 10

10. I’ll describe where I’m sitting at the moment

#asks #fictionadventurer #thank you!#random personal stuff

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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(Impulse #56, 65)

Bart-as-Thad, Thad-as-Bart.

One of these impersonations is the result of eons of intensive study, analysis, and preparation...and the other is a spur-of-the-moment plan thrown together with newly-acquired sewing skills, a wig, and memories of a single encounter with the person being portrayed.

Thad had to have known that Bart impersonated him once to fool CRAYDL and that (shockingly!) it worked, right? He would not have been happy about that, no doubt.

Can we also appreciate that these issues have the reverse digits of each other.

#comicsposting again #BA: fastest attitude alive #TT: sort of like twins

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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Like I promised I'll still try to draw the other requests on the 'six character challenge' that I couldn't add, so here is Secret by @spspspspspkitty :DD

#comicsposting again #GH: I'd give anything to be normal #I love the subtlety of her expression here!#thus ends A Single Secret At Seven PM thank you for your patience

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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And what are we using the few all-important pencils that we still have for? Deliberately leaving a check mark on the back cover of a returned interlibrary loan to indicate to me that the patron wants a certain book listed there. Instead of, you know, just telling me this information, or using some means of pointing this out that doesn't deface a book that doesn't belong to us.

I couldn't get the mark out, and now it's a smudge. Small, but still noticeable. Really hoping we don't get in trouble with the lender.

#random personal stuff #sir you work in a library you should know better #update: less smudgy now but you can still see the shadow of the mark ugh

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isfjmel-phleg · 3 days

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I'm always on the lookout for hints of religious beliefs in characters from comics, and there seem to be a few hints that Burt Hayes, father of Greta (Secret), has some kind of religious (Christian) background.

He thinks that the best solution to the problem of their son is to "pray that he walks out and never comes back." This could indicate that he is a praying man--or it could just be an expression.

(Young Justice 1998 #4)

In prison, when Greta comes to see him, he while possessed by Billy accuses her of being an evil spirit and tries to repel her with a wooden cross. Although this is Billy acting here, the cross is evidently something that Burt already owns. Note that it is a bare cross, rather than a crucifix, which would feature an image of Jesus. This suggests that Burt is likeliest to be some kind of Protestant.

(#42)

He is seen with a clergyman in clerical dress (with a purple stole, which is associated with Lent, confession, repentance, etc.) and slightly misquoting from the KJV translation of Psalm 23: 4 before his intended execution.

(#53)

My best guess is that Burt (and possibly the rest of the family, at least nominally) is from a background that's likely Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, or something comparable. And if that's the case and that's how Greta would have been raised, it might inform how she would see herself in her post-death role as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death and why she's so worried about being evil.

(is she or her abyss a sort of "valley of the shadow of death" in universe?)

#comicsposting again #GH: I'd give anything to be normal

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