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seriouslycromulent · 1 month

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What I've Been Up To (Larroquette love)

A couple of weeks ago, I started watching a lot of films and TV shows centered around John Larroquette. This is not out of character, of course. If you've visited my blog before, you might know I spent a fair amount of time gushing over him in 2022 after I finally made my way through The Librarians series for the first time, and followed it with a re-watch of the original Night Court.

After that, I watched him in Boston Legal, only to get sucked into a vortex of awesomeness called James Spader. (What can I say? Like most nerds, I have an obsessive personality.)

I've since left that rabbit hole, and leapt into a few others throughout 2023. And now I'm back to gushing over JL.

Maybe it's the new Night Court TV series. Maybe it's the overwhelming increase in great fanfiction that I've come across recently. Maybe it's because the world seems to be constantly on fire and I need a salve to help soothe my psyche. Maybe it's a combo of all 3.

Either way, I'm still leaning in, and I just want to thank my fellow nerds for sharing sources and leads on where I can find more Larroquette goodness. I'm not blowing smoke here either. I truly appreciate this.

Not only because I'm slowly running out of things to watch, but because it's nice to know there are others out there who see what I see in him. You don't know how rare that is.

Anywho! Back to geeking out. Here is a rundown of films, TV shows and TV mini-series-esque things that I've watched starring JL in the past 4 weeks:

* Walter and Henry (watched on Tubi) It was ok. I didn't dislike it. I am a fan of James Coburn and it was nice to see John play a saxophone. I remember him mentioning that he played reed instruments in his musician days back in NOLA. So I'm going to assume that he didn't have to take lessons to sell those scenes.

* Some of the McBride film series (watched on trial version of UP Faith & Family streaming service) These weren't bad. Somewhat Hallmark-y, but I would actually like to see the rest of them, especially the ones JL directed. But about 4 or 5 of them aren't available for streaming, and those include the ones he directed. The ones I saw include - - McBride: Anybody Murder Marty? - McBride: Tune in for Murder - McBride: It's Murder, Madam - McBride: The Chameleon Murder - McBride: Murder Past Midnight

* Camera Store (watched on Tubi) I know JL said in an interview that he didn't like shooting this film, but I thought it was really thought-provoking. You can tell by the reviews on IMDB that some people didn't like the slow burn of the story. But for those of us who like day-in-the-life character pieces, it was very well done. One person described it as a modern-day Death of a Salesman. And I'd say that's pretty accurate. It's definitely not for everyone, but it's certainly worth a watch.

* The 10th Kingdom (watched on Amazon Prime) I think this miniseries was a big deal back when it came out in 2000, but I never saw it. I'm not sure why because I've always been a big fan of fantasy. However, now that I've seen it, I can't say I loved it all that much. So maybe that's why I didn't watch it back in the day. I think it had a great premise, and I loved how they wove a lot of different fairy tales into one big story that played out over 10 episodes (or five 90-min episodes on Amazon).

But I think I had trouble trying to figure out who the audience was supposed to be for this. I'm guessing they wanted it to be for the whole family, but some of the dialogue skewed far older at times and it left me wondering the rest of the series. Especially when it came to things on the topic of virginity, infidelity, and sexuality in general. It was just every now and then, the characters would say something that made me go, "What was the TV rating on this again?!" Also some of the scenes between JL and his daughter were incredibly dramatic, but very out-of-place with the rest of the series' tone. They were good scenes, but it's like it became a completely different series for like 20 minutes. But ... oh well. I'm glad I saw it and can now reference it in the future.

* Wedding Daze (watched on UP Faith & Family) Talk about Hallmark-y! Well, I think this one actually was a Hallmark movie to be fair. The subject matter definitely wasn't my cup of tea, but overall, the cast wasn't bad. Well ... JL, Karen Valentine, French Stewart, and the actors who played the daughters weren't bad. Everyone else was kinda ... m'eh. But it's not bad if you like these types of stories. Interestingly, one of the actors who played one of his daughters (Jaime Ray Newman) also played opposite him in one of the McBride films. It was the McBride: Murder Past Midnight one. In it, she actually came on to JL's character at one point in the story. I looked it up. She shot the Wedding Daze film first, so the McBride role came later. I'm sure that scene was interesting to shoot. All in all, I can't say I recommend Wedding Daze though.

* Chuck, ep. 202 and ep. 414 (watched on Amazon Prime) I've heard about these episodes for years, but I never took the time to check them out because I wasn't a big fan of Chuck. I basically gave up halfway through the 1st season. But for the love of JL, I made myself watch these 2 episodes where he guest starred as super spy Roan Montgomery. And what can I say? They weren't bad. I actually enjoyed them for the most part. It was also fun to see Lesley Ann Brandt playing another sexy badass. (Methinks, she's been typecast.) I also imagine John probably liked playing the scenes where he was tied up. To be fair, he probably enjoyed the whole thing. He looked like he was having fun pretty much the whole time. Still not a fan of the show though.

* Sanford and Son, ep. 505 (watched via a link provided by another fan) Having grown up on reruns of this show, I loved learning that JL was a part of it, even if it was early in his career and he probably has very little memory of it. After I watched it, I told my mom about it, and she said she remembered that episode after all these years. So that episode definitely had some staying power for a young actor, I think. I mean, how many actors can say they played a white version of Lamont Sanford? LOL! It was a funny episode that kind of gave you a behind-the-scenes look at what the TV soundstages of the 1970s used to look like. Plus, it had Robert Guillaume in it too. Thank you fellow JL fan for sharing it!

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OK. That's it for now. As I mentioned before, I don't have a lot left to watch that's available featuring our guy. Madhouse and Richie Rich are both on Tubi, but I saw those back in the '90s when they came out, and I don't really think they warrant a rewatch.

There are a lot of things in the shared folder I could enjoy, but I'd have to download them and I don't know if my computer memory can take it. Which sucks because I'd really like to watch Baa Baa Black Sheep. My mom remembers that show too. We'll see what I decide next.

I'm sure I'll land on something else before this obsession quietly gives way to another one in a month or so. Until then, watch this space face.

#john larroquette #fandom

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oddlyhale · 6 months

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The thing I got out of this film was that there was a lot of love put into the Justice League. It felt like Roosterteeth really wanted to show what they could do with a popular IP.

Not sure if it was CRWBY's idea or if it was Fitzmartin's, but the JL was the best part of the whole thing. Even in Part 1, I really liked them. If you just tuned out RWBY and focused on JL, it's not a bad duo of films - at least to me.

There also seemed to be a lot of fun with animating JL. Especially with Supes and Vixen - they were both so cool to watch. Flash was very stiff when you watched him speed around, which was such a bummer. It was like watching a cardboard cutout moving quickly on wheels.

So, RWBY didn't wow me at all, as you could probably guess. They're there because they need to be. Worlds have collided. Even Watts felt detached from Team RWBY. He and Kilgore were very fun to watch together, and I liked the idea of Watts being a super genius villain in a DC AU.

You could say that JL felt like a ton of fun because it was Fitzmartin who wrote them since she's been in the comic industry for a while now. And I can agree with that. She knows them better than RWBY - I mean, she wasn't wrong to assume the RWBY heroes knew and met the villains: Tyrian and Watts (when the team has never met Watts and only one of them has ever met Tyrian.)

But CRWBY was directing the whole thing, so you'd think they'd also lead her writing.

Anyway, I halfway enjoyed the films only for JL.

#rwde

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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For many generations until quite recently most of the best schools in England took it for granted that their brightest boys would specialize in Latin and Greek. When those boys got to Oxford they found themselves following the course known as ‘Mods and Greats.’ The first and shorter part of it, Mods, consisted of Greek and Latin literature, but Greats consisted of a combination of Greek and Roman history with Greek and modern philosophy. Thus most of the cleverest boys from the so-called ‘great’ schools found themselves, if they went to Oxford, studying philosophy not because they had chosen it but because it came to them in the same package as the classical languages in which they were specialists. A. J. Ayer once remarked to me that it had never entered his head to choose to study philosophy, and that he would certainly not have done so had it not been presented to him as part of the Greats course.

- Bryan Magee (1930-2019)

When Bryan Magee, the future famed broadcaster, scholar, and politician, went to Oxford to study philosophy in the 1950s Magee was grievously disappointed at what was on offer. Linguistic analysis was all the rage, with philosophers such as JL Austin, Gilbert Ryle and PF Strawson teaching that all Western philosophy was based on linguistic mistakes or misunderstandings. ‘Professional philosophy as I discovered it for the first time in the Oxford of the early 1950s’, he recalled in his 1997 memoir Confessions of a Philosopher, had ‘pretty well abandoned philosophy’s traditional task of trying to understand the world’.

Magee, who had been both fascinated and terrified by the mystery of existence, took it as his mission to rescue philosophy from cold logical positivism or the trivialities of linguistic analysis. For him, philosophy was about asking the big questions. This may be a daunting task, but one ever-more alluring for being so.

His BBC television shows - interviews with the great philosophers of the day from AJ Ayer to Iris Murdoch - aimed at the masses was a runaway success with millions tuning in. Magee appealed to the British public not merely because of his communication skills, but also because he addressed the big, classic questions of philosophy, questions that all of humanity has asked and will continue to ask: Why is there something instead of nothing? What is knowledge? What is language? What is time? Where do we go when we die?

#magee #bryan magee #quote #oxford #philosophy #mods #greats #classics #university #mods and greats #latin #greek #education #culture #british #icon

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phoenixcatch7 · 1 year

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I want to write. A saiki k x superman crossover. SO BAD.

Luckily for me, I have actually seen both shows/media (to an extent), which feels increasingly rare these days lmao. I've got two ideas, and I don't know which one I like more. I will say this ended up being a LONG POST.

Either an accidental dimension cross, where saiki gets teleported to dc. He spends a couple hours figuring out what's going on, exploring his options and getting important lore via telepathy, but without being willing to mind control some hotel for a room or whatever he winds up people watching atop a skyscraper in some American city, just absorbing the concepts of public power use and heroes and aliens and all sorts. Reflecting on it's differences. That's when Clark decides to check in on this kid who hasn't moved for hours on patrol. Their heartbeat is calm, no stress, so he wasn't worried but he really should check.

Saiki, of course, has heard all about superman. What's available to the public, at least. An alien. He might feel better if he were an alien, at least then he'd know why. He doesn't really expect him to appear, but maybe he should have. Because it's only seconds after they greet each other and superman moves to sit down that saiki is hit with a plethora of background subconscious that's he's so used to himself. 'check your grip don't react move slower look away from the skeleton check your grip you didn't hear that relax your eyes you'll need to reapply bruise makeup after yesterday check your grip don't get distracted ignore ignore ignore-'

Ah. Maybe here. Here is someone who... Might understand.

I think they'd get on very well. Secret identities because you just want a normal life. Sometimes you can't help to help. You know a million private things you shouldn't and it's not your fault. No one ever shuts up even when they're silent and you're living in a world of cardboard. Superman would definitely check saiki was actually human XD. Maybe a bit of banter. Saiki gets to vent and talk and supes gets someone who isn't a blood relative lol. They talk until sundown and watch the shrimp colours and after Clark treats saiki to something sweet.

The other is a world fusion au, where saiki grows up alongside aliens and demons and maybe superheroes. Would it be better if he was the same gen as the jl or maybe younger?

What if saiki was kryptonian though. Some weird flavour. And his parents never think about it because baby saiki decided they were his parents and so they were. They just found a weird hunk of metal in the mountains on their honeymoon and little kusuke was so young he'd clean forgotten he had a new baby brother! He got over it though! So saiki grows up not knowing and eventually finds a cheap germanian ring, with a fake emerald in the center. It's blissfully silent, but wearing it too long makes him feel a bit nauseous. To be fair, blocking his own powers probably isn't very healthy. He heard there would be an eclipse tonight, over the ocean, and he wants to go see.

He's not alone. There's someone else there, also flying high above the ocean, hundreds of miles away from any land mass. His thoughts are - blurred, a bit faint, like a radio channel he's not properly tuned in to.

The other person, they noticed him too. They're miles apart, it shouldn't be possible. Another psychic?

I don't know which way it would go from there. If it was a same age, it'd be before everything hits the fan, narratively. Saiki and Clark would spend after school going to each others houses (though 80% of the time saiki would be the one going to Clark's) across continents, bonding and testing each others powers, getting into petty challenges. They both would be so good for each other, as equals, and saiki especially needs healthy friendships at that age. Then Mrs Kent mentions how Clark was found one night over dinner, blindsiding saiki because it just never came up in their everyday lives. Everyone assumes saiki was too, that he must be whatever Clark is, but he's not...?

And then they find the fortress of solitude. Meet jor el. And yeah, he very much is.

Psychic, yes. Human? Not so much. In fact, his parents were famous oracles who predicted the death of krypton to such an extent they were dismissed as fear mongers despite their powerful abilities. Jor had shared ship tech with them but never knew if they managed to use it.

Featuring several major identity crises for poor saiki and eventually a hero partner because Japan might be left mostly alone but metropolis sure isn't and unlike saiki supes can't duplicate himself (he's holding out for a yet but saiki just rolls his eyes at him when he says that). There's eight people who found the jl. Saiki REALLY likes mm. Batman is a traitor to normality.

If it were canon ages, there'd be a lot of mentor adoption. Saiki would appear helping to stop some alien invasion with his bare hands and then bows and tries to duck away. He isn't interested in hero stuff no siree but supes keeps politely tricking him into coming round to the farm, where he meets kids in similar situations (bcz supes adopts kon here f u) and sees how they handle it. Lots of tag teaming and attempts at pranking that all fail the saiki k way. There's so much else in the world they don't doubt saikis just Like That Psychic until he brings his ring. They all hone in immediately that 'that's kryptonite' and saiki maintains that it's the metal not the gem that muffled him until someone straight up steals the gem off the ring and he freezes in horror.

Lots of hijinks including 'you're supposed to be in school! Not JAPAN' and packs of overpowered teenagers roving the Japanese mountains looking for a possible krypton pod. Kusuke is feeling VERY VALIDATED RN and also incomprehensibly furious. It's a comedy of errors whenever any of them show up at saikis school or when he's with his friends. His parents remain oblivious while he grapples with either telling them he's adopted (painfully ironic), somehow undoing a decade and a half of mind control, how he'd even go about it... Makoto wakes up one night in Brazil because he made a comment in his house when kon was staying over for tea at saikis.

#saiki k #saiki kusuo no psi nan #kusuo saiki #disastrous life of saiki k #superman #kal el #justice league #Jla #dc comics #crossover #clark kent #fanfiction #What do you guys think?#Obv his birth parents in the second idea have pink hair that's a requirement #I just think saiki and kal have so many similarities in their way of life and their everyday problems and struggles #And just went about solving them differently #Saiki never dared to truly embrace his powers the way supes did. Even by the end he still regards them with a sort of resigned tiredness #Even if he does learn to appreciate them #It's so obvious it ties in to how their individual parents raised them (and their genre I suppose)#Like with saiki it's all suppression and managing what you have left with supes its about balance and inner peace and what you do with it #You know? I think saiki would benefit massively and also his deadpan humour is so incredibly funny if he went to hero land

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battybrownboo · 2 months

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so silly of me I think I sent asks to ur other deactivated account.

I just wanted to praise ur writing, I love everything you've written and I find that u really nail the atmosphere and characterization

This Strange Effect is the title of a song I like so i immediately was raising eyebrows on ur newest long fic and I'm already obsessed!!! First of all I LOVE space fics esp with these two, there's really not enough of them and the ones I've read are always fun!

I have a theory (if u could even call it that) that the reason the bond didn't appear to have an effect on joker as much as it did on Bruce was bc joker is just always that intense about bats and is used to not acting out on that impulse at every given moment

I'm so excited for chapter 2 <3

Soooo you got me aha. That's pretty much it! Joker is so in tune with his emotions regarding his love for Bruce and Bruce... isn't. It will be fun to show yall how this plays out with Bruce basically forced to feel his desires for the damn clown twink. The effects of the soul bond in general will leave the fic chock full of Bruce and Joker confronting their connection and the best part will be the Justice League being forced to witness it lol.

And ding ding ding again, "This Strange Effect" is a song by The Kinks that I really like. It just fit so perfectly as a fic title. My spotify has been completely taken over by batjokes music and I pulled that one from one of my many playlists of them.

I'm glad you're enjoying the scifi/ space element! I'm loving it too, like, it's such a landmine for comedic situations. Part of me choosing this JL/ space element was watching the animated series and asking the question "what if Joker was there too?" during the many space mission episodes because the joker brain rot is that bad now. Like, I recently read some of JL in the new 52s and watched the animated adaptation "Justice League War" that made me think okay if Bruce saw Joker was one of the people kidnapped by parademons, I would have lost my shit imagining a space rescue. And the scenarios kept swirling in my head until we got here. Anyway, yeah, Joker in space, always a good and stressful time for all lol.

Thanks for leaving such a nice comment, it made my day. I can't wait to publish more for you to read!

#asks #my writing #batjokes #batjokes fic

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thislovintime · 1 year

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Peter Tork and James Lee Stanley, August 2001. Photo courtesy of Lewisville Area Arts Council.

“[I] worked in a nightclub called The Shadow. And I think it was late June [1964] that the Phoenix Singers came through, and Peter was in the band, he was the banjo player in — behind the group… And he and I hit it off, and that Monday night, we did an impromptu show together, we just played a couple of tunes, you know, and had a good time, and stayed friends. And then when I opened a club in 1965, there was no place to play in the winter in that area — Virginia Beach, Norfolk… So I opened a club on my own with two friends, we called it The Folk Ghetto, and I contacted Peter in New York City and said, ‘I wanna hire you to come down here for a week and be the headlining act.’ Which he did. [...] He was, he was fantastic. He was so good. [...] Anyhow, we became friends, and we were friends ever since. As I was a Chinese linguist in the Air Force, I was overseas while The Monkees thing happened, so I didn’t really, I didn’t really experience him as a celebrity, you know, I just experienced him as my pal Peter. And I can tell you that he’s been one of my best friends for my entire life. And one of the more generous people I’ve ever known. And just to give you a window into the kind of guy he was, he would come off a Monkees tour where everything was handled, you know, they would take care of his tickets, they’d take care of his room, they’d carry his instruments, they’d carry his bags, he just had to show up at the airport and they gave him the, you know, the ace treatment. And then he comes off a tour like that and he gets in a rented Dodge with me and we drive around the country playing little rooms, which we filled to the max because it’s Peter Tork, and then he demands that, because I booked all the dates, I take a booking fee off the top. And then he demands that we split the door. He, I mean, you know, he didn’t have to do that.” Q: “Just the fact that when things went south for him and he was working as a busboy at Great American, that just speaks volumes to the mettle of the man to me.” Q: “Yeah. He was, he was just my best friend, you know. And a great spirit. And I just got a wonderful post from his brother Nick, who said that… you know, Peter was in L.A. and he wasn’t really doing anything, and I — we would hang out, and I said, ‘Peter, I noticed that all the other Monkees have solo albums. Why don’t you have a solo album?’ And he said, ‘Well, I just never got around to it.’ I said, ‘Well, you know, I have a label, I have national distribution, and I have a studio.’ I said, ‘Why don’t we make a record and we’ll try, you know, we’ll shop it to the majors and if nobody picks it up, we can still put it out on my label. So there’s no doubt about it, we’re making a record that’s coming out.’ And he said, ‘Okay.’ So we worked on it about four months, and at the end of the four months, he said, ‘You know what, James? I don’t want to shop it. I want it on your label.’ So I got to put Peter Tork on my label without, you know, paying a huge upfront thing to have a world-famous celebrity on my label. You know, he just said, ‘No, let’s do it with you, man.’ He was, he was great, he was just a great guy, you know, Loved the blues, loved the blues, he just would hang out at those blues clubs on his off-nights.” Q: “I just watched you and him at the Tin Angel on YouTube.” JLS: “Oh, right, yeah, there’s a lot of those up there, I think, of Peter and I playing around the States. I looked at a piece of it and what struck me was how much genuine affection there was between us. You know what I mean? I forgot what a joy it was to go out there and play with somebody you love, you know, that you’ve known all your life.” Q: “You can see, it came through, as old and choppy as that video is, it comes through.” JLS: “Yeah, it really does, it really does. And I also was surprised how — I didn’t remember that we were so tight. My recollection is it was pretty loose and casual, but evidently we worked out a lot of little things.” Q: “To be honest, I wasn’t even going to bother you, but that actually compelled me to call, I think... you know, the two of them look so happy together.” JLS: “Yeah. Yeah. And, and I knew since last fall that, you know, he’d ceased the treatment and was just, you know, riding it.” Q: “Was it from that same cancer that had plagued him previously?” JLS: “Yes, yes, it… it came back. It came back and he, they did some kind of experimental stuff and it didn’t work, and so he just, he said, ‘Enough.’ And he just, you know, bit the bullet. And then he called me at Christmastime, we talked a long time. And, and it was the first time he said, you know, ‘I wanted to mention the elephant in the room.’ I said, ‘Well, I’ve been tiptoeing around it for the past year.’ And then we talked about it, you know, we talked about our friendship and our lives together, and apart. And I talked to him not many times after that because he was, he was very tired, he was, you know, he was failing, man.” - Tales of the Road Warriors, March 7, 2019

“Tork later confided in his brother Nick that Stanley had given him his life back. ‘I wept when I heard that,’ Stanley says.” - Stranger Things Have Happened 2020 reissue liner notes

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anicomicgeek · 1 year

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Kevin Conroy and Jason David Frank

I don’t look it, but I’m 37, soon to be 38, years old. I’m a child of the 1990s and I’m a geek. I grew up with the DCAU and Power Rangers – and the past couple of weeks, reality took a baseball bat to my childhood’s balls. First with the death of Kevin Conroy, then the death of Jason David Frank.

Batman and Tommy Oliver are dead: By cancer and possibly suicide respectively.

I didn’t even get the chance to meet either one – but it still hurts knowing they’re gone. It’s taken a bit of time to compose my thoughts on these events, so I feel like I should share them.

Everyone who’s known me for a long time knows I’m a massive DC fan. But Conroy, believe it or not, wasn’t really my first Batman. Believe it or not, thanks to reruns, that’s Adam West. I remember wanting a Batman action figure from the toyline based on the first Keaton Batman movie due to it color scheme matching the suit West wore (and the comics) and despite him not being in the film, being happy that Robin got a figure in the Batman Returns toyline. Speaking of the latter film, that’s where Batman: TAS comes in, since it was a tie-in for Returns.

Like a lot of people my age, I watched Batman: TAS. I wish I could say that even as a kid, I knew how special it’d be when I first saw it – but while I did like the show, my first impressions, due to familiarity with the West show and the Keaton films were “Why do Alfred and Commissioner Gordon look like this?” (unaware that’s how they looked in the comics) and “This doesn’t sound like what I was expecting.” Of course, that went away after watching the show a bit more and the DCAU grew.

Like most kids, I also grew up with Power Rangers, though thanks to the local channel airing the show in the morning, I missed out early on until they shifted it to the afternoon some months later, so I missed out on quite a bit, including Tommy’s introduction and wouldn’t learn his origin until reruns. Still, he was part of the team when I really got into the series and I was saddened the first time Tommy left (imagine what’d happened if they’d actually had Tommy die like his first Sentai counterpart Burai), and then again during season 2 before the mysterious White Ranger kids were waiting all season for turned out to be him. Unlike his costars, he lasted until midway through Turbo, but I kept up with the series until the end of In Space, leaving only with the start of Lost Galaxy. In fact, the Wild Force episode “Forever Red” was the only time I made an effort to watch the show – and it was due to him, Jason, TJ, and Andros.

Back to Batman, I didn’t really tune out of the DCAU, though I did most of Batman Beyond after season 1 and The Zeta Project and Static Shock, but that was due to wanting to sleep in as opposed to waking up in the morning. Still, I did see most of the crossover episodes of Static Shock and I did tune in for Justice League. In fact, my favorite DCAU show was JL due to seeing multiple heroes appearing, even after stupid mandates affected Batman’s supporting cast and villains’ appearances on the show (look up the term “Bat-Embargo if you’re interested in stupidity). After the JLU finale “Destroyer”, that seemed to be it for Conroy as Batman himself; he appeared in the first episode of season 4 of 2004’s The Batman cartoon as Dick Grayson’s dad.

Then came the animated film Batman: Gotham Knight, a tie in to The Dark Knight – supposedly set between Batman Begins and TDK. Supposedly being set in that universe, Batman wasn’t voiced by Christian Bale like one would expect – but by Conroy. Then came the Superman/Batman films, Justice League: Doom, the Arkham games, the Injustice games, the Killing Joke adaptation, Infinite Crisis, Justice League Action, LEGO DC Super Villains, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who, even the recent MultiVersus, all featuring Conroy as Bruce Wayne, along with a number of his DCAU co-stars (though it varied based on what we’re talking about) in tow including Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker himself) as the Joker, Tim Daly or George Newbern as Superman, Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman, Ed Asner as Granny Goodness, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, and Michael Ironside as Darkseid. Hell, even the DCAU itself did get revisited with a mobile VR game and two sequel films, Batman and Harley Quinn and Justice League Vs. the Fatal Five. While I liked a lot of the other DC productions, a lot of the times, the DCAU, Arkham, and Injustice casts were the voices I heard.

While I didn’t actively tune into Power Rangers anymore, I did occasionally watch it if it came on the TV and didn’t feel like changing channels. That said, I did go out to see the remake movie in 2017, which featured Frank and Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly) in a cameo at the end. The post-credits stinger even set up an appearance for Tommy in a sequel – one that, due to the film’s performance, would never come. Even for all of the film’s issues (including the recurring problems of Power Rangers films barely featuring scenes of the heroes in costume), I liked it.

One of my hobbies is fanfiction (fan-written stories) and another is fancasting (hypothetically “casting” actors in roles). A fanfic idea I’d been kicking around, but never actually gotten around to writing, was something called “Multiversal War”, where different things I’d like would meet each other to stop threats from each other’s universe – ad as you can imagine, a lot of my “casting choices” for DC characters were DCAU voice actors, including, yes, Conroy as Batman. Even had Frank “as” Tommy and the Emissary, a character from the Transformers: Prime Wars web series.

Granted, a lot of deaths of other actors also affected my “choices”, but truth be told, Conroy’s passing is what made me tempted to just give up ever writing Multiversal War. I could respond to the passing and retiring of others by sliding someone else in the role, but even trying it with Batman, maybe it’s due to me being the Spectrum, it didn’t feel “right”; it felt off. Every time I think I got something workable, it didn’t feel right.

Granted, I could work around the passing of Frank as well (just replace the Emissary with Spike Witwicky for Fortress Maximus as it was with the earlier Headmasters stuff and write out Tommy), I still grew up with Power Rangers for a long time and Tommy was still my favorite Ranger.

There’s a lot of actors I thought whose passing we’d talk long before Conroy and Frank, including Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime from the original Transformers cartoon, the live-action movies and even some recent stuff), Peter Weller (the original RoboCop), Patrick Stewart, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger, but as of November 10 and 20 respectively, that’s no longer a thing. There’s been speculation that Conroy was sick for years, but given it was years of speculation, I didn’t put much thought into it recently anymore than I did then. And, as someone who suffers from depression myself, it’s still hard to accept that even famous people can also suffer from it and as I generally don’t keep up with actors’ daily lives, I didn’t know Frank lost a stepdaughter nor that he was going through a divorce.

So, like a lot of people, their deaths took me by surprise and I was in a state of shock after reading about them when I woke up.

So, how do I feel after writing all of this?

Still hurting (after all two of my childhood heroes died), but feeling a little better writing it and sharing my thoughts. Hopefully, this helps me and hopefully, I didn’t ramble too much.

#Kevin Conroy #Jason David Frank #Batman #Tommy Oliver #Power Rangers #DC Animated Universe #Batman: Arkham Series #Injustice

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crypticsalutations · 2 years

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Hello my lovelies 🥀

Today we are honored to bring you Part 3 of this special Cryptic Salutations exclusive!

Continuing our talk with Jonathan Lemon of Jesus Couldn't Drum, in this section we delve into his later career as a cartoonist, what it's like working solitary vs working in a group environment, inspirations, and unauthorized Best Of's! We hope you thoroughly enjoy it! 🔥

Track: Jesus Couldn't Drum's Frosty Stay tuned for the final part, coming August 15!

Cryptic Salutations: I’ve done a bit of research and have seen your illustrations and cartoons. Very unique! Was there a turning point where you made a transition toward more comic-oriented art, or have you ever combined your cartoons with music?

Jonathan Lemon: I’ve always been obsessed with comics and cartoons, although not the superhero kind. And in art college I did an undergrad degree where you had to pick a performing art to go with your visual stuff, so I obviously did music and ended up with a lot of video stuff and animation. And now it’s my job to draw cartoons every day. Apart from the brutal deadlines it’s pretty fun..

CS: Do you find that you work best in solitary environments, or when you have other minds convening to bounce ideas around with?

JL: If you can find the right person, it definitely helps to have a sounding board, but since I mostly hate most everyone (including myself) I am usually quite happy on my own. I don’t know if that’s typical for most people. With Pengwyn, we would work independently and then share what we’d done and make suggestions. I like to be able to make mistakes in private first. It’s an interesting experiment to share your idea with a group and see what happens but you have to allow for a certain amount of “letting go”. I think that’s what’s good about drawing a comic strip. You can control an entire world on your own and since I subscribe to the notion that we live in a chaotic, random, cruel universe, it’s my way of staying sane.

CS: At the time of the earliest Jesus Couldn’t Drum recordings, what or who were your greatest inspirations? Musicians? Movies? Even just your everyday environments?

JL: Remember that 1981 was long before you had wide access to free media. What we did was a sort of backlash to the big outpouring of slick branded “commercial” New Wave pop that was coming out like A-ha and Heaven 17, etc. …. synthesizer bands in expensive suits. Guitar-based “rock” had mostly taken a back seat for a while. So we were always on the lookout for anything weird and experimental that we found on the racks of the Record & Tape Exchange in Camden where we’d go every Sunday. Definitely The Residents because they had those great covers and the music was so deconstructed from what music should be and they had that essential vein of humor to show they weren’t taking themselves too seriously, and they branded themselves as such a brilliant anti-commercial concept. We had our minds blown when Pengwyn discovered “The Fish Needs a Bike” single by Blurt. That would still be one of my Desert Island Discs. The early Fad Gadget stuff (which was apparently recorded in a wardrobe) was refreshing, anything on Cherry Red (especially the Pillows and Prayers album), 4AD, Mute, The The, The “A Factory Quartet” album, etc. Psychic TV, Foetus, Cabaret Voltaire, Renaldo and the Loaf, and The Deep Freeze Mice (who I later joined with when they became The Chrysanthemums). I remember Pengwyn liked Julian Cope, Orange Juice, The Rutles, The Higsons, and the Monochrome Set and he was a lot more open minded than me and got to listen to more stuff since he worked in the music store. The Bonzo Dog Band was a huge eye-opener. Both Pengwyn and I had a mutual love of comedy albums such as Monty Python, Spike Milligan, The Young Ones, and older stuff like Spike Jones. We both hated U2 though and all those moody bands that sounded like Joy Division. I secretly liked them but I hated that everyone else liked them. We both listened to the John Peel radio show with tape recorders at the ready. The first time we saw the “Fish Heads” video by Barnes and Barnes was an incredible awakening. Oddly enough we got contacted by some guy in the US who was raving about us and we had no idea who he was but it was Dr Demento! There was a lot of older stuff too that is almost too embarrassing to mention like the first Pink Floyd album, and Syd Barrett, Faust, early Kraftwerk maybe. As far as movies… well this was long before you could just stream any movies you wanted, so just interesting stuff we caught on TV. Lots of old Cary Grant movies, all those cool sixties spy movies, and French New Wave (mostly for the nudity).

CS: Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like none of the tracks have been touched since the 2001 ‘Best of Jesus Couldn’t Drum’ compilation. Have you ever thought about remastering and rereleasing any of them, perhaps on vinyl for collectors?

JL: Actually, the “Best of JCD” CD wasn’t authorized by the band. I first came across it while browsing the racks at Amoeba Records in Berkeley. I had no idea it existed, so that was a surprise. Lost Moment sold the back catalog to Cherry Red a few years ago so they might look into doing something with it, but part of me hopes not. I do stumble across remixes and mashups sometimes. For example someone in Japan made a brilliant version of “Beetlebum” recently with a kid singing over it for a Raman commercial. And a few of our songs got used for jingles and we still get royalties for them.

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lex-munro · 10 months

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[Suicide Squad Scrap] Princess pt. 21

self-indulgent batjokes-flavored SS/BvS/JL, installment 21.

the piece as a whole is rated Mature for pervasive language, varying degrees of violence, use of controlled substances, sexual references, questionable ethics, and themes of mental illness. set from Flag’s POV, with references to Birds of Prey, but not compliant with The Suicide Squad.

p.s. Gotham!Strange is one of my favorite versions of him. love me some quiet menace.

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They split up again when they get back off the island, taking Croc’s directions to surface at different drains. Bit by bit, they trickle over to the VIP room at the Jokers Wild (Harley’s batch stops by her place to grab Brucie, Digger, and Harley’s ‘business partner,’ who turns out to be a latchkey pickpocket named Cassandra).

Mike has brought Lawton’s daughter, as ordered—the assassin hugs her tight and kisses her cheek and introduces her.

Joker beckons his henchman over, has a whispered conversation, sends the guy away again.

Flag realizes they’re all looking at him. “Well, ladies? What’d we get?”

The Latina (Montoya?) pulls out a sleek little tactical computer. “This baby was a present from a contact at the GCPD—Canary cracked that shitty Arkham mainframe like a fuckin’ egg with this thing.”

“Language, please,” Lawton warns with a significant look at his thirteenish kid.

Montoya smiles at Zoe. “Sorry, honey, ignore my crotchety self.” She boots the thing up. “Staff profiles were easy to find, but the files on experiments were a little obfuscated, so we didn’t get a good look earlier, just kinda downloaded all of it. Something about an experimental toxin, tuning it for use as various compliance measures. Anyway, this piece of sh—work is Professor Hugo Strange, the new director…”

She shows them the profile, side by side with what looks like police case files. It’s all pretty vague and circumstantial…but those circumstances coming up over and over is pretty suspicious.

“The Bat says he’s calling himself ‘warden’ of Arkham,” Flag puts in. “Said lobotomies went from two to twenty-seven in Strange’s first week. Covering up?”

“Easiest way,” Harley says. “Nobody listens much to the lobbies—ones who still talk, anyhow. You find a patient who’s a ward of the state, or who’s got a history of aggression. You do whatever you want. Then either electrostim or the needle, and poof, all their problems are gone, and so’s yours.”

“Speaking from experience?” Canary asks, looking at Harley askance.

“Whaaat? You know how hard it is to get the big thumbs up for clinical trials?”

Joker giggles. “Doctor Quinzel has a real touch with electricity.”

“Oh, please, you gave me more juice than I ever gave you—”

“You stole the only memories I still had, you thieving—”

“It’s a proven treatment regimen for manic-depr—”

“Lalala, not listening—”

“SHUT UP!” Flag shouts. “Both of you, Jesus! Like fu—fricking six-year-olds. So, we have some data to sift through. Ladies, you want any help with that? I’m a blunt instrument, but Arcee’s pretty handy with all types of surveillance, and despite his massive personality flaws, Jay’s brilliant.”

“Personality flaws?” Joker echoes with a hand to his chest. “Boy Scout, how could you say such a thing? Didn’t you guys go to all this trouble for little old me?”

“I’m here because Waller sucks and I didn’t want her to give me whatever drugs she gave you,” Digger says.

“I’m here for your boyfriend’s autograph, ell-bee-arr,” Arcee says with a shrug. “Nah, I’m just playing, you know you’re my bro, Mister J.”

Joker flashes Flag a dangerous grin. “And you…Rrrrick. You’re just thinking about what I said when we first met, aren’t you?”

“No, actually,” Flag dismisses. “I didn’t lie to you, and you got your visitations like you wanted. Nah, I was just thinking about those promises you made to the Bat.”

Joker’s grin slowly fades. “Yeah? Where’d you hear about that?”

“You’re pretty chatty when you’re high as a kite.”

Flag’s expecting it when Joker climbs into his lap with one of his murderous shark-grins. “Let’s just keep that a secret between you and me, hmmmm?”

Flag isn’t impressed. “Anybody ever tell you, you’ll make a lot more friends if you don’t constantly threaten them?”

“Nope!”

“Well, I’m not sure what you think you can threaten me with, anyway, since we’ve always got along fine and, as you said, I know your secret.”

Joker actually growls at him.

“Don’t do it, beautiful,” Lawton calls lazily from where he’s settled down to not-quite-doze in a luxurious leather armchair (next to Cassandra and Brucie, who are fully asleep). “You’ve been so well behaved—it ain’t worth spoiling that. The satisfaction won’t last long, and Daddy’s gonna be disappointed.”

With a slow breath and a roll of his neck, Joker stands back up.

“Shame,” says Harley. “Woulda been fun to see him bite you. Maybe take yer nose off.”

“Ah, shhhish-kebab,” Montoya says, glancing sidelong at Zoe. “Buncha this is encrypted. Don’t suppose anybody has a supercomputer handy? I hate to bug Oracle about it when we got so many…extralegal coworkers right now…”

“How about an Arkham employee-issue decryption device?” Harley asks. “Should still work. I mean…like, eighty percent of my other credentials never got revoked, and they ain’t got the funding to change ‘em out. Otherwise, I guess we could work on that ass—” She eyes Zoe and quickly finishes with, “—scerbic doctor who tried to poison my Pammy.”

Huntress stands up. “Canary and I can start working that angle while you get the device.”

Ratcatcher scoots closer to Montoya and says, “And me ‘n Monty can keep going through the non-encrypted stuff.”

(“Don’t call me Monty.”

“Sure thing, Mama Bear.”)

“All right,” Flag agrees. “Quinn, me ‘n Jay will come along as backup, since he’s the one with all the resources and reputation.”

“Then I’m coming, too,” Ivy says firmly. “These two need professional babysitting when they go anywhere together.”

Flag drives, mostly because he doesn’t trust Harley’s driving and Joker keeps drifting.

It looks somehow more run-down with the lights and TV off.

“Home, sweet home!” Harley says brightly.

Ivy’s mouth twitches slightly, like she’s trying not to make a bad face at the ‘broke bachelorette with almost no sense of hygiene’ vibe.

“Just gonna use the little clowns’ room,” Joker says, sauntering through a door.

“Don’t steal my Fenty lipstick,” Harley warns, already poking through disorganized piles of junk. “Know it’s around here somewhere…”

“Should—can we help?” Flag asks, eyeing a disgusting old takeout container perched atop a stack of magazines.

“Ehhh, prolly better not. I got a system.”

A ‘system.’ Her mental roadmap must look like a demented habitrail, if the carnage she calls a living room is a ‘system.’

“Oh, that’s where I left that…Playboy issue with the Justice League cosplay shoot. The chick in the Martian Manhunter getup is pretty hot.” She pauses to wiggle her eyebrows at Flag. Then she goes back to digging and unearths a Flash-themed rubber duckie, which makes a sad squeaking noise as it hits the floor next to Ivy.

So Flag leaves her to it, occasionally grimacing at the things she finds in her search.

Almost ten minutes pass. More than enough time for anyone without a smartphone to be in a bathroom. Lawton said he’d collapsed in the shower, and he almost dropped twice during the Arkham run…

“I’m gonna go make sure Jay didn’t fall in or something,” he says, and ducks through the bedroom door.

The light is on in the en suite, and it does look like Joker perused the makeup on the vanity.

The clown himself is standing in the shadows of the unlit bedroom, back to the door with something in his hands.

“Harley’s gonna be pissed if she finds you going through her shit,” Flag says.

Joker glances at him distractedly, then looks back at whatever he’s found.

It’s a rusted little tin lunchbox with photos and pieces of paper in it. Some of it’s to be expected: Polaroids of them as a couple, sketches of tattoo designs, Joker headlines, articles, a cover of Time that dubs him ‘America’s most interesting inmate’…

But some of it’s…a little sinister. There’s tabloid shots of a pretty guy with Bruce Wayne, speculative headlines about a ‘mystery date’ and a ‘bisexual billionaire.’ There’s a sheet of lined notebook paper where Harley practiced signing ‘Harley Napier’ or ‘Harleen Napier’ a few dozen times.

“What’s that?” Flag asks, seeing the corner of some kind of plastic card or badge in Joker’s hand.

“I…I think it’s…it was…me,” Joker replies in a small, numb voice. “I think I found this before, but ever since Ace Chemical, my memory’s always been…” He trails off with a half-shrug.

The card is a partially-melted Jersey driver’s license featuring the pretty guy from the tabloid clippings. And…yeah, take away the eyebrows, turn the skin white…

“Holy shit, it is you,” Flag agrees. “Napier, J-something. Wow, you look great for your age.” He remembers that little note in Fries’ dossier: Jack Napier, alias Jack White, alias Mister J, alias The Joker. Joker’s dossier had said ‘alias Jack Napier (unconfirmed),’ like maybe his file wasn’t as current. Is Harley the reason ARGUS knows Joker’s old name?

Joker’s breathing is getting shallow and erratic, edging toward either an angry tantrum or a panic attack. “Why does she have this? Why would anybody want—I don’t know who this is. He’s just some—some boring nobody. I don’t—I can’t remember—”

Flag takes the card, shoves it back in the lunchbox, snaps it shut. “Jay, don’t worry about it,” he says quickly but quietly. “Don’t even think about it, all right? It’s ancient history. You’re the Joker now, the craftiest bastard to ever rule Gotham’s seedy underbelly, and the Batman is head-over-heels in love with you. It’s pretty rare and special to find somebody who cares about you even when they’ve seen the worst of you, and I don’t see him asking for picket fences and soccer-mom vans. He’s not her. He doesn’t wanna change who you are—he just wants you to change a behavior. Stop killing people, right? He didn’t make you promise to get a nine-to-five, or stop breaking the law, or sell off your club. He didn’t make you promise to put on a suit and shake hands to get a big enough bonus for a family vacation. He doesn’t want you toothless—he just wants you trained, like any good Daddy would.”

If pep talks are out of Flag’s comfort zone, having a mass-murderer hugging the breath out of him is like setting foot on the moon without a space suit. Is this how Lawton felt when Flag hugged him in Midway?

“Uh,” he says, perturbed and unpleasantly squished. “Kinda need to breathe.”

Joker lets him go abruptly, nodding.

A stray thought wiggles its way to the front of Flag’s mind. “Waitasecond—you told Harley earlier that you don’t lie…”

“Hm? No. Make shit up if I don’t know an answer. Kid around sometimes, but I always give it away within a couple of minutes.”

Flag’s brain derails slightly. “So you really, actually have ‘Daddy’s Whore’ tattooed across your ass.”

Joker laughs at him, a simple, relieved sort of sound, and all his anxiety has vanished. “Yep. You shoulda seen the look on his face when he saw it—he threw me outta bed. And then he couldn’t stop laughing for five and a half minutes.”

“Oh, you timed him?”

“Yup. Woulda been longer, probably, but I started sucking him off.”

“TMI.”

“LOL,” Joker retorts, holding his left hand over his mouth and wiggling his brows. He grabs the lunchbox and makes for the door.

“Jay,” Flag tries.

“No. I need to do this.”

So Flag gives himself a three-count to enjoy the silence of the tiny bedroom before going out to keep the peace.

“Did you go through my stuff?” Harley demands, teeth bared.

“Did I find it before?” Joker counters. “Is that what set me off? Why I ditched you? Is it why I have more blanks in my fucking memory? A fucking dissociative manic episode from finding out you had some deranged fantasy of grooming me into a briefcase-lugging middle manager with your love and understanding? Did you even see me, or just that guy who was dating Bruce Wayne?”

The way Harley’s face crumples says everything.

With a wordless snarl, Joker opens the lunchbox and starts to tear things apart.

“Stop it!” she shrieks, grabbing for the lunchbox. “That’s mine!”

“I’m not yours!” he screams back.

“Ugh,” says Ivy, rolling her eyes but not bothering to interfere as the spat goes on.

When they stoop to scratching and hair-pulling, Flag and Ivy step in and pull them apart. “That’s enough,” Flag says while Ivy dries Harley’s tears.

Joker sits down in the middle of the floor, giggling to himself amid shreds of paper. And then he stops, all bloodthirsty seriousness, and says, “Jack’s dead. There’s just me, now. But I guarantee I can put a smile on your face, if you wanna put a leash on me so bad.”

Flag watches Harley and deeply pities her; she’s clingy by nature, looking for someone to follow, and that usually leads to addictive codependency. She needed Joker’s strength, so she covered up her bruises with a fantasy until it all came tumbling down.

She takes a long breath, sniffles, licks some snot off her upper lip. “We’re bad for each other, Mister J. The worst. I try to please you, it feeds your narcissism; I try something new, it comes across as fake; you lash out, I bleed. So I get hurt and you feel lied to. And it’s awful lonely, I know, especially with the amnesia and the dissociative blackouts. It must be scary, feeling so alone.”

Joker looks up at her. “Only two things scare me: my Batsy when he’s truly angry, and being in love with him.”

She raises her eyebrows. “That’s ‘cause you’re afraid of being alone when he either dies or dumps you,” she says with the wisdom of experience.

Joker just stares at nothing—either he’s thinking it over, or he’s gone away inside his head again. He looks lost, and tired, and so much like Junie…

Flag clears his throat. “Quinn, you find that Arkham decryptor?”

She holds up a thumb drive. “Let’s go crack Strange’s top secret bullshit.”

“Let’s go, Jay,” Flag says, offering a hand up. “You need some downtime while our revenge percolates.”

Joker looks at him blankly.

“C’mon, let’s get back to Floyd,” Flag tries, knowing that both of their pet psychos have latched on to Lawton’s dominant, decisive personality. Harley wants to be a sidekick, Joker wants to be a princess. Can’t do those without someone willing to take responsibility instead of just authority.

“You’re going to have to be more forceful about it,” Ivy tells him. “You don’t want him staying like that, or he’ll kill someone…maybe one of us.”

Flag straightens up and readies his rifle. “Get your ass up off that floor. We don’t have time for this shit; we got a devil to catch and a Bat to save.”

Joker blinks hard, squints up at him, staggers upright. “What’d I miss? Why the serious faces?”

“We gotta get the decryptor back to the club. And you need to sleep off the rest of those drugs before you collapse again.”

“Oh. Kay.”

“I’ll drive,” says Ivy. “You babysit the clown.”

Ivy drives like a racer, it turns out. She’s all tight clearances and high speeds, in control the whole time. It’s not unsafe…but it is unnerving, especially with Harley twisted around to talk to Flag. She’s asking about Ratcatcher, of all things—filling silence per her usual, but genuinely interested, too.

“Nice enough kid, if you get on her good side, but she took two fingers off a guard after her first mission. She’s a biter, like her little friends.”

“What’s up with that, anyway? Are they just trained real well, or what?”

“That was my first guess, too. No, she honest-to-God can talk to ‘em and understand ‘em. Some kinda meta-human super power. They don’t understand a lot of human speech except from her, and not all of them can read, but they’re smarter than you’d think. They can tell her all kinds of shit.”

“Huh. Well, that’s worth investigatin’ for sure. She could be a spy, or a private detective! She could join the Birds of Prey!”

“I dunno…it took a month to really get her playing nice with others, and that’s only because she thinks Jay’s funny and she likes to troll Digger.”

Joker rouses from staring out the window to half-heartedly protest, “I am funny.”

When they get back to the club, it turns out that the whispered conversation with Mike was to arrange for the opulent sofa in Joker’s office to be made into a temporary bed for Zoe, with four armed guards outside.

The place is quiet and dimly-lit otherwise, just a few heavies at strategic points. In the VIP room, Croc and Digger have fallen asleep over a drinking game, it seems; Ratcatcher has some kind of mobile device plugged into the hacking laptop so that she and Montoya can double-team the easy-access data; Lawton is still lounging, but watching the door with his rifle over his lap and a cup of tea (maybe?) in his hand; Cassandra and Brucie are still snoring away on a loveseat near Lawton.

Harley flounces over to the girls with the decryptor (Ivy trails after).

Lawton’s brows furrow when he sees the roughed-up state of their two crazies. “What the hell happened, Flag?”

“What, like it’s my fault these two are as catty as a pair of high school girls?”

“Harley started it,” Joker says loftily.

“Fuck you, you went through my shit!” she retorts.

“I’m not yours!” he roars again, and the whole room stills (Cassandra peeks open an eye, Brucie sits up with a confused little growl, and Digger startles awake with a yelp). His chest is heaving, his eyes are wild. He looks like a starving wolf about to strike.

Lawton stands slowly. “Come here. Now.”

Joker takes a step and stops again, trembling. Flag wonders if that fear toxin is still making him see shit…

“Don’t make me repeat myself, princess.”

Haltingly, step by step, Joker diverts to Lawton, on the other side of the room from Harley.

“Good boy,” Lawton says solemnly. “You’re not hers. You’re his. But you ain’t gonna belong to nobody if we can’t get Waller’s claws out of him. So you’re gonna sit your pretty ass down, I’m gonna clean up these scratches, and you’re gonna sleep until those drugs have run their course. And when you wake up, you’re gonna put your eyes on the prize and stop letting yourself get distracted by your crazy ex-girlfriend. You’re supposed to be the big badass here, right? So boss up.”

Once it’s done and Joker is curled up asleep under a fuzzy green blanket, Lawton stalks over to the girls and puts his hands on his hips (Flag is sitting at a nearby table with a cold glass of beer). “Baby doll, I’m gonna need you to stop picking fights,” he says to Harley. “His mind ain’t been right since we left the Bat with Waller, and if he snaps, he will kill each and every one of us. Straight-up murder us. Possibly cut our faces off and wear ‘em for Halloween.”

“Might not kill us,” Flag corrects. “He promised the Bat he was done killing. That’s why he didn’t kill that scumbag, Vince. But clearly mutilation is fair game.”

Harley makes an apologetic face. “If he has a dissociative episode, he might kill us all without even realizing it. It gets bad sometimes, like he’s a different person with zero self-control and a boatload of violent urges. I was actually making good progress on that with meds, but obviously I couldn’t get him his pills while I was locked up, so…” She shrugs.

“Promised not to kill, huh?” Montoya says. “We’ll see how long that lasts.”

“He’s kept it through a lotta shit so far,” Lawton admits.

“Well, it was for their anniversary,” says Ratcatcher. “Wadn’ it? Right before he went to Arkham this last time. Twenty years is a big deal—you don’t stick with somebody that long unless you’re serious or you never see each other.”

An hour later, Montoya says, “Aha, here we go, ‘fear therapy serum.’ Wow, what the fuck?”

Everyone still awake gathers around her to watch a collection of videos documenting the fear toxin experiments (Joker is sleeping soundly, Harley has cuddled up with Cassandra and Brucie, Lawton has nodded off, and Croc is still snoring away). The entries involve a lot of screaming and twelve-inch needles.

They’re all just…staring. Horror, fear, anger…

“Shit’s fucked up,” Montoya says in a small voice.

“They woulda done that to Mister J,” says Ratcatcher.

“They kinda did,” Digger points out. “But only once, so that’s an improvement over…” He squints at the screen. “John Dee. Twelve exposures, three lobotomies, six applications of electrical therapy. Seems like overkill…”

Flag grunts and says, “All in the name of fine-tuning this ‘fear toxin’ and its delivery. For wide-area pacification.”

Montoya stands up and walks away a few steps. “None of this is gonna stick on its own,” she says. “They’ve apparently got at least limited government sanction through this ‘ARGUS’ agency, and definitely deep pockets, and all the subjects they’ve abused are wards of the state. With lobotomies all around, I doubt they’ll be complaining about their doctors’ choice of treatment plan.”

“So we go public with it,” says Ivy. “Make the Agency deal with donors who don’t like bad publicity, so that they cut Strange and Crane loose.”

“Good call,” Flag says with a nod of agreement.

“What about that reporter from Metropolis?” says Montoya, holding out a hand. “The one who does all Superman’s interviews? She nailed Lex Luthor’s reputation to the fucking wall.”

“Lois Lane,” Digger sighs with a faraway look.

“Dude,” says Ratcatcher.

“What? Have you seen her? She looks like a Disney princess with nice boobs. And she’s proper sassy, too, not the ball-busting kind like Harls.”

Ivy scoffs at him.

Montoya makes a face like she’s decided to ignore Digger’s bullshit. She tells Flag, “I’ll have Oracle get us in touch with her.”

.End.

#fanfic #scraps #Suicide Squad #CANON DIVERGENCE #universe alteration #guest-starring the Birds of Prey (and Brucie)#guest-starring Poison Ivy #fic series: princess

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justoneofthoseghosts · 1 year

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You bring up a really great point about most of the viewers of shows are casual viewers, I think that those of us in the fandom often forget this. At the end if the day, it's a business for them. PD is a very good example of this. I don't know what happened behind the scenes with JLS but it seems to me that both sides were not able to agree on contracts. Did it hurt the franchise, maybe to those who were big fans of Halstead and his relationship, but for a casual viewer not so much. The ratings haven't been terrible for PD, it didn't drop drastically as some have made it out to be. The show has still been able to move on with major cast departures, and this applies to Med and Fire as well, because a majority of the people watching are casual viewers, they have no stake in favorite characters or ships, it's just another show in a line up of shows they watch.

I also see where fan service can come into play and how it can help and hurt a franchise. For me that's a good and a bad thing, especially for those who only watch shows for ships.

Look at 'The Rookie' they finally got Chenford together but this often scares me because if the writers are not good at making the characters multidimensional, those two will only be tied together. With no growth for characters only the relationship and often times is the female character who suffers like Hawkami and the writers putting the ships growth before the character (Violet). Or they can scream dislike of the show until the end of the show like New Amsterdam fans.

It's going to be interesting how the absence of TK will affect CF and how NBC chooses to go forward should he decides to permanently step away instead of returning.

Sorry if this came off as a tangent but something I was thinking about after I read your anon.

I agree with all of this, Nonny! And no need to apologize. My inbox is always open to any thoughts you and others may have 🤗

While streaming has been on the rise, a lot of these network procedurals still draw in so many causal viewers and OC has Wednesday nights in a chokehold. It was a great decision for NBC to line them up in one night because that does increase ratings and I noticed how Fire's increased beginning season 7.

I am wondering though why they haven’t announced renewals yet but maybe Wolf Entertainment is still trying to negotiate a deal for another multi season renewal. Procedurals tend to run longer than other types of shows, in my opinion, because even with cast changes, people still tune in. Most viewers aren’t really tuning in for the ships. They want some type of entertainment through action or cases and probably something to take their minds off their busy day. CSI ran for 15 seasons even with a lot of the cast leaving and new characters coming in. I can honestly see the same thing happening for OC if NBC decides to keep the 10 pm hour after next season and if they continue to get renewed. For actors, while it is a stable, paying gig, sometimes they might want change or some new challenge. Playing the same character for x years can be tiring too, While we can’t speculate about Taylor and his LOA, and I hope he's okay, if he decides not to come back, they can look for another actor with a similar level of popularity and make him the lead. It opens up more writing opportunities (or maybe rehashing old storylines lol) but Jesse and potentially, Taylor leaving doesn't mean the shows are over. Same for PD with JLS (and I am quite curious about what went down with that) and Med with all the cast changes.

You bring up a good point on fan service too. Writers seem to scroll through fandom Twitter or social media to see what people are buzzing about. Love it when they give in to it but also, there’s a bit too much bad writing on these networks. 22 episode seasons are a doozy unlike shorter shows on streaming sites or UK shows that only have 6 to 10 episodes which leaves less room for error or lazy writing or fillers but again, the base the writers are playing too is less the fandom but more casual viewers who they need to keep tuning in weekly. Casual viewers don't really analyze when a character is OOC or if a ship tanked.

At the end of the day, we can scream, sigh, fangirl/boy about everything about TV and that’s just the roller coaster of emotions. TV shows should be fun and (maybe if it isn't all the time) a stress free way to unwind!

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Letterbox lyrics

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Don't offer resistance, try to figure this music out and enjoy the emotional flow. I would consider Brandtson a band that you don't listen to, you experience it. It's amazing how a band can make you absorb in their passionate and varying post-hardcore music. Their voices are dragging you along to dreamy dimensions of sadness and joy. You can try to resist, but it's a fact that you will succumb under the emotional pressure of the hypnotizing emo-pop-rock tunes and the magnificent harmonious interaction of the voices of Jared Jolley (drums, vocals) and Myk Porter (guitar, vocals). I don't even know who wears these things. Actually, no it's the, we've got these three days ago. JL: Was that Danny or was that the teleprompter guy We got these things now.people can have private communications with- JF: Yeah. To me Brandtson is such a band and just grabs you emotionally without any problems. Dan/'Teleprompter Guy': Letterbox JF: Letterbox. Intro A A A A A A A A Verse 1 A D Are we still. Discover The British School in The Netherlands - SSVs top songs & albums, curated artist radio stations & more.

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"There are some bands that play with your heart and soul like if you're a toy doll that can't offer resistance to anything. Free printable and easy chords for song by Banner Pilot - Letterbox. "Slow, deliberate and darkly passionate." - Punk Planet Brandtson can bash out a righteous wall of noise." - Magnet "A maelstrom of dense, tight emo with fire and real darkness. Brandtson are gonna be THE biggest." - Fracture "Angry, melodic and powerful although they occasionally do let up. Mighty and infectious.the business." - Kerrang "Damn near untouchable rock and roll blasted out from battered amps. "Blindspot" continues the favorable impression with a six-eight groove seemingly borrowed from Weezer's depressed twin brother. The album's first track 'Round 13' commands the listener's attention with an attack slightly reminiscent of early Social Distortion. Song titles like 'Nineveh' and 'Glutton For Tragedy' show that the band also possesses a poetic sensibility. "Letterbox features all the hallmarks of the emo sound: the approach is moody, the dynamics extreme, and the lyrics painfully honest. I'll never know what you'll find When you open up your letter box tomorrow 'Cause a little bird never tells me anything I want to know, She's my best friend, she's a sparrow And I'll never never know what you never never never want to know When you know what you are, O. Unreleased song "Holly Park" on Emo Diaries 2. Letterbox Lyrics Verse 1 The bell is ringing - get up and open Try to move - I'm loosing ground I'm feeling slack and scratch the surface Sending invitations round Verse 2 I'd better keep. Somber yet spirited with introspective lyrics, Brandtson is thoughtful, inspirational and mature beyond their years. Thick, driving, emotional guitars that are sometimes pretty, sometimes surging, sometimes chaotic. And they proudly wear their post-hardcore and dare we say pop influences like a badge of honor. Alright, so here we go.Dark, melodic and hauntingly beautiful, Brandtson explodes with shredding intensity on Letterbox. JF: Just for slickness sake, I should tell him now that you're not. So, um you're not, are you going to play the accordion on this one or no? I think I told Iggy you were going to play accordion so. This was just like, a song that was from the original issue of stuff. If I had a pair of eyes on the back of my head for each time. And Ill never never know what you never never never want to know. And Ill never, never know what you never, never, never wanna know when you know what you are, oh. Cause a little bird never tells me anything I want to know, Shes my best friend, shes a sparrow. Ill never know what youll find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow, Cause a little bird never tells me anything I wanna know shes my best friend, shes a sparrow. So, um this song is, uh, actually I think we actually recorded this song 5 years before we did the Flood album. When you open up your letter box tomorrow.

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We have a brand new radio show now available https://www.mixcloud.com/TheSoundLabUK/the-sound-lab-episode-305/ (mixcloud link via bio) On this weeks show we have interviews and music from Kodaline, Massive Wagons, Aston Merrygold of JLS, hot milk & beauty school plus a live Session from Kitten Pyramid! Alongside all that, we have these amazing tunes: Tom Grennan - All These Nights Palaye Royale - Fever Dream Declan J Donovan - Regret Not Loving You Dylan John Thomas - If I Didn't Laugh Sub-Radio - 1990something Danny Wright - Wishing Is Easy Micky John Bull "Comedy Entertainer" - England For Glory The Covasettes - Plastic Gold Day Wave - See You When The End's Near (Feat. KennyHoopla) The Flitz - 1995 Within Temptation - Don't Pray For Me beabadoobee - You're Here That's The Thing Sam Ostler - Tried To Fix It Zoe Clark - Wrong Time Tyrannosaurus Nebulous - Get Some Internet Friends - Dressed To Kill Forty Nights - Lying Eye The Native - 20 Something Share the love! #NewMusic #Podcast #NewMusicPodcast https://www.instagram.com/p/CgZn2XisWZo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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the-brave-new-world-project · 2 years

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OC Intro - Fun Fact

Let's meet some of the AUs major original players with a fun fact!

These are formatted as if the denoted individual is speaking.

Destiny Binter Prophet (DBP): Even though I'm half metal and have been poked and prodded more than anyone should be, I refuse to get a tattoo (I'm scared of needles).

Robert Irwin (RCI): I once used a Jedi Mind trick on a crocodile we were trying to catch. It sort of worked.

Gracie McQueen-Larin (GML): I wanna quit my job and have six kids.

Jerome Larin (JL): My wife is crazy. Also, I was a mechanic before and during the Crossfire Revolution. I'm still pretty decent if I do say so myself.

Louis Paulis (LP): I used to do drag charity shows, but I got stalked and had to quit.

Lauren de Montagrie (LdM): The reason I always wore a motorcycle helmet when I was with the Lettermen Syndicate is because I have a birthmark under my bangs on my forehead *lifts bangs* that would ID me.

Devon Novell (DV): I can neither confirm nor deny I have seen DB sleep hop on one leg to the kitchen at 3 am.

Raquel Hasad (RH): I found out those, like, pirate bandanas technically count as a head covering, and that's all I've worn since.

Alsace Loraine (AL): I do a pretty convincing wolf howl when I'm in pain.

Nicolav Bartok (NB): I once knocked out the President of the United States in an evacuation because he just kept shuffling around and getting distracted.

Alejandro Cordova (AC): I have three kids, a little girl named Anya and two boys, who we're currently looking for among the Zygerrians enslaved victims.

Durango Prophet (DP): I'm a jedi... in training! *slips Sloane a fiver*

Sloane Prophet (SP): I can do this! *dabs*

Vincent Novell (VN): We all thought I was an orphan and only child there for a few years.

Chang'e Moon (CM): I met President Xi Xing Ping once.

Houyi Moon (HM): I legally changed my name to match Chang'e, 'cause she's named after the lady in the moon, so now I'm named after her lover! (Who she steals an immortality potion from, mind you).

Besk Treden (MT): I was adopted by Mandalorians who turned me over to the creche. I'm a Mandalorian Jedi.

Malin-Grace Irwin (MGI): I usually go by Grace. DB technically named me after she rescued my parents from Zygerria.

Feel free to ask questions, leave suggestions and interact with me or any of these guys!

Next one coming soon, so stay tuned!

#ask me questions #star wars #star wars au #brave new world #screenwriting #writers #writers on tumblr #Brave New World AU #questions

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jasontoddsguns · 2 years

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Bruce Wayne having to play Fuck, Marry, Kill on a talkshow, except all the options are JL members.

#dc #batman #bruce wayne #fuck marry kill #Superman #wonder woman #Aquaman #green arrow #flash #+ like 20 others #even better if this is after the identity reveal #and that all the JLs are tuned in to the show #talkshow host: what about wonder-woman? we all wanna piece of that ass #Bruce: (sweating bullets)

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Ok so we know Jason has met superman and idolises Wonder Woman when he was robin. So maybe he sees them as an aunt and uncle along with a couple of the other leaguers. But then he comes back and he’s murdered several people and he’s the red hood but they don’t know he’s alive. So maybe they try to stop him themselves when he’s gone outside of Gotham for a case? And find out he’s alive and they haven’t been told? Idk I’m just rambling.

Okay, I may make this a longer fic at some point, but the idea of Hood being confronted by Superman was too good to pass up.

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Jason really wished that Roy and Kori had stayed. He’d never faced the Justice League without them as a shield - Roy and Oliver fought, but Green Arrow would never let Roy be locked up, and the League still had fond memories of the first Teen Titans and Starfire.

Hood, though, Hood they hated.

Jason wasn’t sure if they were just disgusted by how far he’d fallen, or if it was their protectiveness of Batman, but he could feel the hate directed at him as a sonic boom heralded the advance party.

Unfortunately, the Outlaws had definitely pissed off the JL in their latest couple of missions, and Jason didn’t want Roy and Kori to stay just for his sake. He didn’t want to stay either, but his hands were the only thing keeping Batman’s blood inside his body, where it belonged, so unfortunately he couldn’t get up and leave.

“Red Hood,” Superman said, voice cold, “Get away from him.”

Also unfortunately, Jason had run into Batman on a case outside Gotham, outside the Bats’ jurisdiction, so Batman’s call for help had summoned his superhero buddies instead of Nightwing or the Replacement.

“Not if you want him to live,” Jason replied, glad that the helmet covered his facial expressions.

The only warning he got was the tensing of Superman’s eyes - before Jason could blink, he was flat on his back, staring up into icy blue eyes. He felt like he’d been hit by a train.

Surprise gave way to horror - “Wait,” Jason said, struggling to get up, but Superman’s hands were as unyielding as shackles, “He’s bleeding -”

“He is being taken care of,” Wonder Woman’s boots stepped closer, “Red Hood. You and your Outlaws have been leading us on a merry chase.”

Well, given that they tried to arrest them every time they showed up, of course the Outlaws kept running away.

Jason opened his mouth to make a quippy retort, already resigned to his fate - he didn’t have any Kryptonite, and maybe Roy and Kori would sneak into the Watchtower to break him out later - but was halted by a low, gravelly voice.

“Jason?” Batman - Bruce called out weakly, “Jay?”

Goddamn the man for sounding like that. For pushing Jason out of the way of the blast that had nearly shredded his side. For refusing to be the cold-hearted bastard Jason wanted him to be.

Above him, Superman and Wonder Woman exchanged a look. “Jason!” Bruce called out again, now sounding frantic.

“I’m here!” Jason called out, and hissed as Superman’s arms tightened, “Let up, will you, the boss man wants to see me.”

“Jason!” Supes and Wonder Woman exchanged another look and suddenly, Jason was on his knees at Bruce’s side, arms wrenched painfully behind him.

All of the insta-travel was making his stomach churn.

“I’m here, B, calm down,” Jason snapped, and Bruce’s head weakly twisted towards him. Green Lantern had some green construct pressed to the wound, and Flash had a blood transfusion line set up.

“Jay,” Bruce exhaled slowly, slumping back. He sounded very out of it, Jason needed to ask the Replacement for the cowl footage. “Robin, report.”

Jason felt his stomach twist painfully - in tune to the increased pressure on his arms, Jason had to arch back so his shoulders wouldn’t dislocate - but it wasn’t the first time Bruce had gotten confused and mixed up which of them had the R at present.

“I’m fine, you colossal idiot, you’re the one that decided to play martyr,” Jason snarled, but Bruce had taken the ‘I’m fine’ as permission to slip back into unconsciousness.

Jason narrowed his eyes - typical Bruce - and startled when he realized no one was pinning his arms anymore.

Green Lantern was gaping at him. Flash had frozen still. Wonder Woman looked stunned, which was not an expression he’d ever seen before on her face.

“What?” Jason asked, a little self-conscious.

“You’re not Robin,” Green Lantern pointed out.

Jason very nearly growled - Jason knew that, thank you very much, it was the cornerstone of half his issues - and the voice modulator put the appropriate amount of rage into his words, “Not since a mad clown blew me up, no.”

Now they all looked sick. “Jason?” Wonder Woman asked, disbelieving.

“That’s my name, don’t wear it out.” He briefly calculated the odds of making a run for it now that Bruce was stable and no one was holding him down, but his plans were arrested by Supes appearing in front of him.

“Take off your helmet,” Superman ordered.

“What? Why?”

Superman didn’t bother asking a second time - Jason yelped as air suddenly slapped against his bare face - clearly X-ray vision was enough to figure out how to unclasp the thing without it turning into a bomb.

“You could’ve waited two seconds,” Jason grumbled, squinting up at Superman.

Superman was staring at him, his expression roiling, and Jason flinched back violently when - in the space of a blink - Supes was crouched in front of him, hand outstretched.

“Jason?” he asked softly, and Jason stayed perfectly still as he...brushed the white lock of hair out of his face. “You’re alive.”

And suddenly Jason had an armful of crying alien as Clark wrapped him up into a tight hug. “You’re alive,” he repeated brokenly, and Jason slowly patted his shoulder, extremely confused. Diana had crouched behind him, eyes wet and full of wonder.

“Did - did B not tell you?” Jason asked hoarsely, a lump rising in his own throat as his eyes prickled. Hal had a hand pressed to his mouth, eyes shining, and Barry was looking at him in painful, disbelieving hope.

“No,” Clark said, his voice cracking, “God, Jason, no - did you think we would - no.” His hug squeezed tighter, “I missed you so much, kiddo.”

Jason returned the hug, whispering back, “I missed you too, Uncle Clark.”

#fanfic #batfamily whump #jason todd whump #bleeding #emotional whump #identity reveal #request fill #follower extravaganza

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What are your feelings on Kyle/Jason/Wally. I kinda think it might happen if Kyle had a crush on both. Accidentally tells Wally. Teasing. Jason finding out. Jason and Wally overdramaticly flirting. Dick finds out and Kyle dying from the close proximity of both Jason/Wally Wally/Jason Jason/Kyle Wally/Kyle. And then Flirting/Showing off intensifying. Although I don't really know much about Wally or Kyle. ❤

RUBS HANDS TOGETHER

Hello? This is the greatest ask anyone’s ever sent me. Kyle is a lovey-dovey dumbass who falls in love after two seconds of knowing someone, so like. It’s real. It’s very real. He and Wally would’ve had their thing first? Because of their whole enemies to lovers arc in JL, except - because of that whole dynamic where they started off ragging on each other, I feel like they both would’ve been oblivious to their feelings. Add in a healthy dose of compulsory heterosexuality from Kyle, and yeah... the adults of the League have probably been waiting years for that ship to sail, except the babies just keep being oblivious dunderheads.

(Wally realized in his teen years that he’s not strictly heterosexual, because being on a team with Dick Grayson when you’re male tends to draw out any bent inclinations very, very quickly. It’s just. Kyle is the snot-nosed rookie too big for his britches. He’s a baby? He’s an infant. Wally is not attracted to an infant, wtf.)

And then Kyle goes off on his journey of self-discovery with Donna and Jason. Well, journey of self-discovery for him, because Jason’s ass and body and his devil-may-care tough guy attitude is the culmination of Kyle’s bisexual crisis. Seriously, countdown is basically Kyle going “ugh, that stupid hot sexy asshole is so hot and sexy around Donna, there’s no way she can resist him. Why is he attractive? He needs to stop. I’m going to fight him because he’s TOO HOT.” It’s incredible. If the writers weren’t cowards, countdown would’ve ended with them being in a triad.

Donna’s probably the one who points out that mayhaps... Kyle’s constant mooning over Jason might mean something different... and Kyle’s like wtf, no. And then he actually thinks about it, because Kyle’s one of maybe two (2) men in the dcu who has a semblance of emotional intelligence (idk who the other one is, but I’m sure he’s out there) (edit: it’s Connor. Connor Hawke. Connor is the other man. I was going to say Clark but Clark keeps going to extremes whenever he or his are threatened and. like. he tries, bless his heart, but there’s still a lot of repression going on with him) and he’s like wait. Fuck. Well what do I do with this information!! It’s not like Jason is into guys!!!

To which Donna just looks at him like, how are you so smart yet so stupid at the same time. She remembers how baby Jason mooned over Roy and Dick as much as he mooned over her. She Remembers.

(Also, lbr, Donna’s very experienced by now at dealing with dumb boys in denial about their non-het leanings. See previous statements about being on a team with Dick Grayson. She saw all of it, man. She’s seen so much.)

Cue Kyle, sitting bolt upright in bed after they’ve just wound down for the night and just saying, “Oh my god, Wally.”

And Donna’s just like, yup.

And Jason’s just like ? wtf is that asshole up to now. Whatever, idc, blissfully unaware of Kyle’s bi panic.

Anyway. The world is saved, and they get back to their Earth, and Kyle manages to put it aside because Everything Happens So Much. He’s the Green fking Lantern, okay, he doesn’t have time to deal with sexuality crises, except. Except. It won’t leave him alone?

Like, in his downtime he hangs out with Wally a lot since they’re friends, and oh yes, hello raging crush that he can no longer pretend isn’t a thing, because once Kyle acknowledges his attraction? That is it, man, there’s no turning back from that point. And ik that in canon, Jason threw a snitfit and left Kyle and Donna in the middle of their happy fun space adventure fieldtrip, but let’s say he didn’t have a sudden ooc personality turn because of writer mandate, and he stayed with Kyle and Donna until the end of their journey, and they stayed in touch.

And Kyle realizes, to his horror, that Jason is charming, and funny, and not bad on the eyes, and fuuuuck. This isn’t really helping his stupid dumb crush. Stupid dumb crushes. Goddamn.

(Sometimes Jason even joins him in his Space Adventures because of his new team. More specifically, Kori and her shiny new spaceship that can sustain humans in space conditions, and he is not jealous, shut up, Roy.)

(Roy caught on pretty quickly, because he’s much more empathetic and in tune with other peoples emotions than he pretends to be 90% of the time. Unfortunately, he only uses his powers for chaos.)

Ofc, Wally would start getting curious about Jason eventually because suddenly this kid is fucking everywhere? Dick’s calling on him for intel in the middle of a firefight, and he’s ragging on Roy’s atrocious dress sense, and he’s joking with Donna and Kyle’s giving him the same shit that he used to give to Wally, excuse me. Wasn’t he a villain or something? The last time Wally paid attention to him, he was sawing heads off in Gotham, and now Wally can’t seem to turn without tripping over him. When the fuck did that even happen?

(I’m not sure if Wally ever met Robin!Jason. Hm. Were Jason’s guest-appearances on the team during when Wally was pulling one of his stints of... I don’t WANT to be a hero, I want to be a NORMAL BOY who goes to COLLEGE, even though I literally re-created the Flash’s lab accident down to the letter just so I can have his powers and be a hero and save the world? ... ykw, we don’t acknowledge that era of Wally. This was back when he was a meninist incel or something. Ick.)

... and damn, Wally really can trip over him now, huh. Because he sure did grow up big, and strong, and rugged, and haha fuck now Dick is starting to glare at him, too, and not just at Roy, abort, abort.

...... Wally does attempt to subtly ask Roy, later, if there’s any truth to the statements about him and Jason and Kori that Roy says to Dick to get him all riled up. I say “attempt to” because Wally is bad at subtlety. It’s part of why he and Kyle get along so well. Roy realizes what he’s asking and he about has an apoplexy because Wally? Wally? Now there’s a surprise contender he did not expect, tossing his hat into the ring.

But also. Also... hot.

Roy and Kori are watching all of this while munching popcorn like damn, this is better than TV. Because Kyle’s having his crisis, his Love crisis, and Wally’s having his oh my god why do I find my best friend’s little brother hot crisis, and Jason is just happily oblivious to all of this, because he’s too busy angsting over his dad not loving him enough and dismantling trafficking rings and being the big, bad scourge of Gotham to notice Kyle pining after him like a lovelorn puppy, and Wally eyeing him appreciatively like he hasn’t eaten in a whole hour and Jason is a tender piece of marbled steak roasted on both sides to perfection. He does notice the way Kyle and Wally look at each other, though, because he’s only observant when it comes to the positive emotions of other people. And he is not stepping in the middle of that, tyvm, because from what Roy’s told him the two of them have a looooong history and he does not want to get caught in the middle of that crossfire.

Roy and Kori are both like, what makes you think it’s going to get messy, anyway? And Jason, whose real world examples of functioning relationships are 1. Willis and Catherine Todd, 2. Bruce and Selina, 3. Bruce and Talia, 4. Dick and all his exes, 5. Roy and all of his not-exes because he doesn’t date but people keep falling in love with him anyway and he panics and ghosts them because he is Roy William Commitment Issues Harper, 6. Kori and whatever the fuck she’s got going on with Dick and like, an ex? back on Tamaran? who she might still be married to?? what the fuck, 7. Kyle and Donna and their messy breakup(s)(?) (Jason doesn’t ask, because he Does Not Want To Know) (he’s too busy repressing to realize it’s half because of jealousy), is just like, that’s just how things go.

And Roy and Kori, both having mentally run through all of those ^ options while Jason was thinking of a response, are just like. ... yeah, alright, that’s fair enough.

God, every single relationship in DC is a mess.

Where was I even going with this?

Oh, right. Basically, Kyle is pining like a lovelorn idiot, Wally doesn’t know what the fuck he’s feeling and it’s making him confused, and Jason is ignoring his feelings because maybe if he just represses them hard enough, they won’t spill over and punch him in the face. Honestly, I see Wally making the first move, because his inadequacy issues don’t run as deep as Jason and Kyle’s do, and Kyle’s just like :D and Jason’s like, what the fuck. What the fuck? Because it literally blindsides him, even though it’s stupidly, painfully obvious to everyone else around him.

Either that, or Roy gets sick enough of watching their lovelorn pining, and employs Dick’s help to lock them all in a closet, naked, and fuck it out.

(Dick doesn’t actually disapprove of Jason sleeping with his friends, he just needs to get over his mental block of still seeing Jason as a baby)

Anyway. They’re all a whole-ass mess.

#holy shit this got long #also I just realized I didn't follow the scenario you suggested I'm sorry #them being Fucking Dumbasses pushed out the sexy fluff #hoodflash #jaykyle #flashtorch #jaykylewally #I'm just going to start listing three+ pairings alphabetically now #jason todd #kyle rayner #wally west #roy harper #kori #donna troy #ficlets #asks #bless you for this question #you know what I'm about #redtwomuch

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