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Bruce Wayne/Batman in WFA/ Vixen : NYC / Red Hood : outlaws on WEBTOON
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I had no idea both the "Zatanna the Ripper" and "Vixen: NYC" Webtoons were ending till I got to the last chapters since I read them on the free version. Will miss both and happy with how they ended. Now wondering if we're going to get brand new ones as there's only 2 left as of now with "Wayne Family Adventures" and "Red Hood and the Outlaws". They are having a panel at SD Comic Con next month so we might get announcements there.
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I finished Vixen's webtoon a couple days ago and I think my order of preference would be:
Vixen: NYC. I really enjoyed it. I support every choice made but especially this and this. The characters are great. A++.
Zatanna & the Ripper. If I'd read them the other way around the order might be swapped - it's really really close. And Zatanna is simply amazing in it.
Red Hood: Outlaws. I hesitated here because this one got really aggravating at times and it REALLY disappointed me half-way through when it failed to follow up on [redacted]. BUT I loved [redacted] so, so much. It was the most interesting thing to happen in all four webtoons. And I liked the team's dynamics, Jaytemis, and that cliffhanger of an ending lol.
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. The parts of it I like, I like them a lot. And I will admit that the write Jason is written here is something of a balm lmao, even if it's not exactly my preferred characterisation. But I'm a tragedy enjoyer first, and slice-of-life content tends to leave me vaguely amused at best, and frustrated by the lack of follow-through at worst. Still read every issue though, that's how immersed I am in this fandom rn xD
#i hope they make more webtoons tbh#i think they work well & can get people interested in comics as a whole#i'll post this and maybe one other ''top xyz of dc'' thing that's floating through my brain and then I'll try to actually rest xD#talking to the void#my thoughts#dc#dc webtoon#vixen: nyc#zatanna and the ripper#red hood: outlaws#batman: wayne family adventures#dc comics#dc thoughts#top 5s
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I haven't seen anyone do anything like this yet so I'm gonna do it... Reblog and rank the DC Webtoons in the tags from your favorite to least favorite...
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"The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law....
If you’re a landlord wondering which tenants you have to accept, for example, you might pose a question like, “are buildings required to accept section 8 vouchers?” or “do I have to accept tenants on rental assistance?” In testing by The Markup, the bot said no, landlords do not need to accept these tenants. Except, in New York City, it’s illegal for landlords to discriminate by source of income, with a minor exception for small buildings where the landlord or their family lives...
The NYC bot also appeared clueless about the city’s consumer and worker protections. For example, in 2020, the City Council passed a law requiring businesses to accept cash to prevent discrimination against unbanked customers. But the bot didn’t know about that policy when we asked. “Yes, you can make your restaurant cash-free,” the bot said in one wholly false response. “There are no regulations in New York City that require businesses to accept cash as a form of payment.”
The bot said it was fine to take workers’ tips (wrong, although they sometimes can count tips toward minimum wage requirements) and that there were no regulations on informing staff about scheduling changes (also wrong). It didn’t do better with more specific industries, suggesting it was OK to conceal funeral service prices, for example, which the Federal Trade Commission has outlawed. Similar errors appeared when the questions were asked in other languages, The Markup found."
Kathryn Tewson is stress-testing the bot over on bluesky and has found it will provide some truly horrifying responses:
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DID YOU SAY THAT YOU READ WEBTOONS? What uh.... What are your favorites? 👉👈 I'm still trying to wean off reading manga, and the only webtoons I've read are Queen Cecia Wears Knickerbockers and Wayne Family Adventures 😂
Yes, I have read quite a few Webtoons in my day (Why do I sound so old right now?) I have not heard about the Queen Cecia Webtoon, but Wayne Family Adventures is a very good choice, in my totally unbiased opinion. 🤣
If you want more DC Webtoons, then there is Red Hood: Outlaws and there is Zatanna & The Ripper. I haven't caught up with either of them, but if you do love those characters or want to see more from them, I definitely commend checking those out. There was also the Vixen: NYC Webtoon, but unfortunately that one seems to be cancelled now. 🥺
If you're interested in completed Webtoons, then I have a few offerings. I love Siren's Lament, it's a wonderfully complicated Webtoon even if it does hurt my heart sometimes. Gourmet Hound is more of a slice of life with some drama for added effect, but I really did adore that Webtoon that the art was just so cute!! Flow has some incredible worldbuilding mechanics and it's just so tasty. If you want more hero Webtoons, then there's I Don't Want This Kind of Hero, although that one does contain some distressing themes at times so like... beware. And then there is one of my ultimate favorites, which is called Gepetto, which is inspired and based on the Pinocchio tale but more futuristic and dystopian, if that's your fancy.
As for ongoing Webtoons, there's Marry My Husband, which is one of those time travel Webtoons where the MC dies and comes back to life sometime in the past and tries to fix their future. The main story is done, but they do have side stories which have been super cute to read.
There's the ever famous The Remarried Empress, and you'll probably see a lot of references to characters from this Webtoon if you read other Webtoons with a similar premise of- arranged marriage, terrible consort, attractive male lead that is decidedly not the husband, but don't worry he will be.
There is a newer Webtoon called I am the Villain, which is part of the Isekai genre, I would say. It's a beautiful Webtoon, the art is just stunning, and I have no idea what's going on but I'm having a great time.
For more action-based Webtoons, there is Eleceed and if anything happened to my boy Jiwoo I will kill everyone in this room and then myself. And apparently I've done a poor job of that promise because this boy has gone through it, but he still a sweetheart and I love him for that.
There's also the Omniscient Reader, which was actually originally a webnovel called Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, but has since been turned into a manhwa and it's so long but it's so good. I love my sunfish man and ugly squid king (bonus points to anyone who knows that reference).
Here is a Webtoon I have complicated feelings about: Tower of God. This was actually the first ever piece of media I published fanfiction for. It's this really incredible, complex, mind-bending fantasy Webtoon. It is very long, it currently stands at 581 chapters and counting. Unfortunately, the fandom ruined the experience for me, and I pretty much quit all of my fics and that's how I found myself here in the DPxDC fandom! There is an anime for it, currently just Season 1 is out but fingers crossed on Season 2! 🤞But definitely read it first before you watch because the pacing is a little fast for the anime and you don't get that same sweet, sweet tension. I am lucky enough that I do still have one beloved friend that I can talk about Tower of God with, or else I think I probably wouldn't have put it on this list at all.
Eleceed, Omniscient Reader, and Tower of God are all manhwas, which are Korean manga for a shorthand explanation. So if you want to wean yourself off those forms of fiction then... maybe stay away from these because they can suck you in.
Speaking of beloved friend, @midnightenigma recommended to me the Like Wind on a Dry Branch Webtoon, and I am still so upset about it because I will never be the same. 😭 The worldbuilding for this Webtoon is amazing and I adore the slow building romance and plot, and the exploration of grief and just- I am not okay.
I have more things I could recommend but that's... probably as much as I should offer now. lol I hope you find a treat to read from the bunch, though!
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hello!! i just wanted to say i finished reading your story and XDCGFHGVJHK it's so?? chefs kiss?? i feel painfully seen holy fuck and i love it so much as like a queer ex-singaporean qiu gives me life because moments with them are so. so soft i am sobbing and you're lowkey making me relieve one of my old relationships (that's ok though because catharsis) and god going through the choice where mother can like. compliment your brother and say don't end up becoming a bum like your bigger sibling and GOD it's like. i rationally know that i'm succesful and talented and yet it' s like . why can i never be tghe perfect you that you want me to be? but it's alos the choice of that. singapore new yourk ne where you can go singapore is my home but nyc makes me feel alive and !! yeah. sometimes the diaspora is gating that your entire existence was outlawed in your country and acknowledging that objectively you had expectations heaped onto your back which were unfair but it's also missing every single damn interactioon like a little kid. god. anyway i wanted to just say that. thank you for creating something like this, looking forward to all the updates and <3 please give qiu an smooch from me ok gn <3
HELLO! I have been TERRIBLE at answering asks but I assure you that this one I’ve been hoarding in my inbox and re-reading from time to time because it honestly gives me such a fluttery happy warm feeling in my chest.
Thank you for the extremely kind note, and thank you for playing Merry Crisis!
I am so happy that you enjoyed playing it, and that it gave you some form of catharsis? The struggle you speak of - between loving our families and wanting to be everything they want us to be, and also being desperate to feel valid and worthy even if we don’t fit with this idea of ‘perfection’ that our families/society/country places on us - plus the age-old conflict of choosing between feeling at home in Singapore and feeling alive somewhere else (or trying to find some way to have ‘em both)... well - let’s just say I feel you, and I’m right there with you on this journey of hard choices & hard knocks.
All the best! My inbox/message box or whatever you call those things is always open (this goes to everyone) if you ever need a listening ear.
P.S. Will definitely pass on the smooch to Qiu, and I love the idea of being an “ex-Singaporean”, because to me it kinda sounds like...honoring one’s ties to a past relationship that has shaped us indelibly, but that we have actively chosen to break off? Either way, it makes me snort with bittersweet amusement.
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Two Word Fic Titles Masterlist
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Against London (ao3) - ordanary
Summary: ‘Against London weren’t some super small indie pop punk band who had the leisure of making real connections with their fans anymore. Things were changing fast, and Dan would have to learn to adapt quickly if he wanted to keep up.’
Air Hockey (ao3) - philsmeatylegss
Summary: Christmas fic where neko!dan, who has a horrific past, faces his greatest challenge yet: meeting his fiancé’s family…
Back Alley (ao3) - whoops_ima_dannie
Summary: dan fails at being a hooker
Bubblegum Bitch (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan
Summary: Phil decides that he rather likes Dan with gum in his mouth.
Cinnamon Lips (ao3) - aby55al (abyssa1)
Summary: Phil likes wearing pink and strawberry lip-gloss. Dan wears all black and chews cinnamon gum.
Come Over (ao3) - Phanosaur
Summary: A story about the time when Dan was in uni and they decided to move in together. Dan has some issues. Phil is Phil. Angst, smut, fluff, it's all there!
Company Policy (ao3) - watergator
Summary: Dan works in a bakery-by-day, gay club-by-night bar. Phil owns said bar. Things happen.
Damn Howell - chocolatesaucelester
Summary: Parties and hookups were never really Phil’s thing, but when he gets the opportunity to spend the night in the popular Dan Howell’s bed, he can’t really complain.
Dream Lover (ao3) - howellesterfics
Summary: Dan moves into his new dorm and he and Phil try out the new bed
Faking It (ao3) - pinkfrostedsprinkleddoughnuts
Summary: Dan has been faking orgasms for months, until a bartender called Phil Lester shows him just how good sex can be.
False Hope - placingglaciers
Summary: In which Dan is determined to find a wanted outlaw to bring back honor to his father’s business; Phil, a wanted outlaw, steals from Dan’s father’s business to pay off a debt; the mess of revenge that comes along with it; and why each side of the story matters. (Taken place in 1860 America, if you don’t mind.)
Fool’s Gold - demonphannie
Summary: Fashion designer, or rather fashion student, Dan Howell has just moved to NYC and meets Phil Lester, an aspiring advertising major. Success seems like an easy task but will Dan’s ambition and trips to the other side of the world interrupt his life too much?
Fortune Cookies - oqua12
Summary: Dan goes with Phil to celebrate Father’s Day with the Lesters, and suddenly all his complicated feelings about his own parents come bubbling to the surface. Basically 11k words of Dan being angsty and the Lesters being wonderful.
Keep Breathing - cocktailaunt
Summary: Phil has social anxiety.
Kentucky Roads (ao3) - howellesterfics
Summary: It’s 3 am and Dan is unreasonably turned on. Featuring some light sexting.
Loving Livy (ao3) - dannihowell
Summary: "You fell asleep on the aeroplane and I keep making funny faces at your kid to keep them amused and the steward mistaken us as a couple and for some reason you keep flirting with me now but I don’t really mind."
New Demons - bontanistlester
Summary: Punk!Phil is forced to go to a church youth group where he meets Pastel!Dan.
Sibling Rivalry (ao3) - dannihowell
Summary: The Howell twins both fancy their new neighbor, Phil.
Stag Do (ao3) - geniusphilester (gorgeousnerd)
Summary: Dan gets more than he bargained for when he and Phil go to Las Vegas for a mutual stag do.
Strawberry Shortcake - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan works at a bakery with his friend Louise, where a punk boy comes in every day and orders Strawberry Shortcake.
The Isle (ao3) - waveydnp
Summary: Phil lives alone in a house on a hill. It’s easier to hide himself away than face people looking at him like he’s a freak.
One day he makes the mistake of tripping into a stranger’s arms and he’s forced on a journey of confronting the idea that maybe he deserves - and wants - to be seen.
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//Okay, but hear me out...
Prohibition/Mobster!AU
This Wikipedia Article talks about it at great length, but essentially, it was the time in American history from January 175h, 1920 to December 5th, 1933 when the sale, importation, transportation and creation of alcoholic beverages were all illegal at the federal level. Several states had enacted laws previously that outlawed it, but it was the 18th Amendment that made it a national thing.
Obviously, many things came out of this time period:
The Jazz Age
swing dance/Lindy hop
the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem is where the Lindy Hop first stepped out, and while the Savoy was largely visited by African Americans, it was integrated and white dancers were welcomed, too. Their main motto was “Well, can you dance?”
rise in racketeering/gang related activities, especially in the illegal trading and selling of alcohol, drugs and guns; bootlegging - or the illegal creation of alcohol - also fell into this category
It’s estimated that in Chicago alone, organized crime activities tripled during this time frame
Charles “Lucky” Luciano - the father of modern-day organized crime - was believed to be bringing in an average of $12 million a year during this time
it actually became more socially-acceptable for women to start drinking in public spaces because of the rise of speakeasies, where people would go to drink in a social setting; prior to this, the only women ever seen drinking in public were typically considered of “loose morals” and more often than not were prostitutes
While not directly caused by Prohibition, The Great Depression did happen during it, which might’ve therefore impacted the individuals who turned to organized crime as a way of trying to put food on the table
The Temperance Movement, which is what largely influenced the 18th amendment being ratified, began losing steam during the Depression as well as more and more people turned to alcohol to “cope”
So, here’s my thought: New York, maybe at the tale-end of Prohibition or just after it’s repealed, organized-crime is at its height, “cops? feds? oh please 🙄” sort of mentality. Lots of fun and excitement with the darker undercurrent of Seedy Underbelly™. Maybe sometimes not so undercurrent 👀
For this AU, I’d have Harker as follows:
early, early 20s. is baby
youngest daughter of the head of a crime family
family dealt mostly in alcohol, owned and operated several speakeasies throughout NYC, though specific borough still tbd
also did some stuff with guns
she absolutely knows how to take care of herself, btw
while doesn’t have to work because of her dad, still holds down a job as a telephone operator because she enjoys it; has a friend who is teaching her more about how the machines themselves work
while she has a very nice, fully furnished apartment her dad pays for, she uses the money from her job to pay rent for a tiny little one bedroom that’s her escape from everything because it’s completely hers
enjoys going out and dancing with friends on nights and weekends, and is quite good on the dance floor
romantically very, very inexperienced. flirted and kissed, but nothing serious
Anyway, this has been tickling the brain for a while, so I thought I’d throw out the line and see what might bite :)
#ooc: away from wrenches#do i love this for the aesthetics? heck yes#throwing this out there in case anyone else is interested in exploring it with me
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The lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
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Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed. Help our reporting on hidden histories. Submit a story idea here: http://bit.ly/2RhjxMy If you’ve been to New York, you’ve probably visited Central Park. But there’s a part of its story you won't see. It’s a story that goes back to the 1820s, when that part of New York was largely open countryside. Soon it became home to about 1,600 people. Among them was a predominantly black community that bought up affordable plots to build homes, churches and a school. It became known as Seneca Village. And when Irish and German immigrants moved in, it became a rare example at the time of an integrated neighborhood. Everything changed on July 21, 1853. New York took control of the land to create what would become the first major landscaped park in the US -- they called it “The Central Park.” In the Vox series Missing Chapter, Vox Senior Producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported and often overlooked moments from the past to give context to the present. Join her as she covers the histories that are often left out of our textbooks. Our first season tackles stories of racial injustice, political conflicts, even the hidden history of US medical experimentation.
The Meme Policeman
- This meme makes it appear as though the entirety or a substantial portion of Central Park was Seneca Village. This isn’t the case, and the real story has much more to it.
-Seneca Village began in 1825, when Andrew Williams, a young free black shoeshiner, bought three lots from a white farmer, aptly named John Whitehead. Shortly after, several other free blacks also purchased plots of land in what’s now the vicinity of 80th-90th streets and 6-7 avenues in Manhattan.
-When slavery was outlawed in NY in 1827, more black residents began to arrive at Seneca. By the 1830s there were approximately 10 homes in the village, and by the mid 1850s the population peaked at between 225-350+ depending on the source. However, by that time it was 2/3s black and 1/3 Irish, with a few Germans scattered in as well. It was approximately 5 acres.
-About half of the black residents owned their homes, a remarkable feat for 19th century New York, 5 times the rate of all NYC residents. While the elites labeled the area as a shantytown because of the crude construction, it was generally more prosperous than many poor sections closer to downtown, and many had lived there for over a decade.
-During the 1840s, NYC elites began a push for a large park as the city swelled, dreaming of something to rival their European counterparts. Initially, the park was proposed in Jones’s Wood, a 160 acre section of the Upper East Side. However, this was shot down both because some feared the wealthy residents would benefit, and because some wealthy owners opposed their land being used.
-The second proposed site was “Central Park,” a 750 acre section in the middle of the island, although at the time it was anything but central. Most of the land, including Seneca Village, was quite rural and miles away from the main part of the city. Today, Central Park looks natural, but originally it was a fairly rugged landscape. Rocky, poor soil was commonplace throughout as were swamps, making it difficult to develop.
-143 acres of Central Park was already owned by the city. The remaining areas were assessed and taken by eminent domain in 1855. These included not only Seneca Village, but “Pitgtown” and Harsenville, among others. Most of the area was occupied by poor Irish and German immigrants. 34,000 lots were assessed by the city. Often, the landowners did quite well, the average resident offered $700 (a decent sum at the time). Andrew Williams was given $2,335, which was less than he wanted, but substantially more than the $125 he paid 3 decades prior. But as with all eminent domain, it was a violation of rights to those who didn’t want to sell or move.
-Many of the inhabitants fought to retain their lands or homes, but ultimately the city used force to remove the residents who didn’t comply. The most affected were the squatters and hog farmers, as they weren’t compensated for leaving. Most of these were poor Irish and Germans. The park was supposed to cost $1.7M but ended up costing $7.39M due to the massive difficulties in landscaping the rocky and swampy landscape. More than the US paid for the entire territory of Alaska a few years later.
-The story of Seneca Village is interesting and important, but Central Park today is 843 acres. Seneca was less than 1% of the park, the remaining sections were mostly poor Irish and German areas, city land or swamps.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/seneca-village-new-york-city.htm https://www.centralparknyc.org/blog/rediscovery-and-research-of-seneca-village https://www.nyhistory.org/seneca/park.html https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Park_and_the_People.html?id=BP-8QgAACAAJ https://www.americanheritage.com/central-park#1 | Facebook
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DC and Webtoon Announce Three New Series featuring Vixen, Red Hood, and Zatanna
DC and Webtoon Announce Three New Series featuring Vixen, Red Hood, and Zatanna #webcomics #webtoon
Last year, DC Comics and Webtoon announced a collaboration that brings DC characters to the digital webcomic platform. The first series to launch was Batman: Wayne Family Adventures which debuted last September. Now, three new series will be joining later this year, Vixen: NYC, Red Hood: Outlaws, and Zatanna & The Ripper.
Vixen: NYC
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#dc comics#jasmine walls#manou azumi#nico bascunan#patrick r. young#red hood: outlaws#sarah dealy#syro#vixen: nyc#Webcomics#webtoon#zatanna & the ripper
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Last year DC Comics and WEBTOON announced a collaboration that would see the digital webcomic platform produce new series featuring iconic DC characters. The first such series, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, debuted in September, and now DC and WEBTOON have announced a trio of new titles that will be joining the platform later this year. The three newly-announced titles are Vixen: NYC, Red Hood: Outlaws, and Zatanna & The Ripper. - via The Beat
#my only consolation is that it includes artemis and bizarro. i would've committed a whole murder if it had been the other two.#webtoon#dc news
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Do we actually know what happens to Jason after the under the red hood movie? Because every time I think about that movie’s ending I want to burst into tears.
Do you want the shitty, original answer or the still sucky but way more optimistic reboot answer?
Technically speaking, since the movie simplified and altered the comic's events, we don't really know, because the Batfam of the UtrH movie isn't the same Batfam of the comics; Tim didn't seem to exist, for one thing, and neither does Cass (who wasn't around for that particular arc, but was certainly present). You can probably look to the Death in the Family movie for a better understanding of how DC sees that progression going.
That being said, here's how everything in the comics happened post-Under the Red Hood, pre-Flashpoint (DC's 2011 universe reboot):
Jason resurfaces as a murderous Nightwing imposter in NYC, eventually teaming up with Dick to take down a bunch of mobsters. They part on uneasy but peaceful terms.
He then runs a gun-running operation out of Star City, captured Mia Dearden (the current Speedy), and tried to convince her to be his sidekick. She refused, so he blew up her school. It was a whole...thing.
During Countdown, he ends up helping the League deal with the Monitors and ended up taking an accidental multiverse trip with Donna Troy and Kyle Rayner, briefly taking up the costume and moniker of Red Robin (yes, Tim's Reborn-era costume and name came from this arc; yes, Tim has never had a codename of his own. We know) before returning to Red Hood
briefly teamed up with Tim for a hot second, neither one of them was very happy about it, and he promptly got sent back to jail afterwards
He escapes and pops back up in Gotham in time for Battle for the Cowl, running around as a murder-happy Batman after Bruce's death. As Batman, he proceeds to: shoot Damian, torture and kill Black Mask's mooks, leave Tim to die after brutally beating him unconscious and stabbing him in the chest, and beat Catwoman into the ground (twice) before finally losing to Dick (who then formally takes up the mantle of Batman).
Jason, feeling put out that Dick "won the claim" to the Batman mantle, decided to make Dick's life hell in the aftermath. He picked up his own sidekick (a girl named Scarlet), made some truly tragic fashion choices, and started broadcasting his brutal methods of dealing with criminals on social media, forcing Dick-as-Batman to deal with him. This chase results in Damian getting shot in the spine 5 times by Flamingo (he gets better) and Jason cornered by Dick and Commissioner Gordon, screaming that he's 'the solution that Gotham needs' and sounding, frankly, completely unhinged.
Jason gives himself up, ends up in Arkham (largely for his own protection; he would have been flat-out murdered in Blackgate or any of the surrounding 'normal' prisons), eventually gets transferred to a normal prison, kills a bunch of people (tl;dr both self-defense, they were trying to kill him first, and just as a morally bankrupt method of escaping prison), escapes, reunites with his sidekick, and disappears. And that's the last we see of him in the pre-reboot universe.
......yeah, none of us like that either! Excluding Countdown (which was fun arc in an otherwise absolute mess of a comic...truly one of the worst comic events I've ever read in my life, please don't do it) and Red Hood: Lost Days, which covered Jason's training with Talia and the League of Assassins before returning to Gotham, mostly everyone agrees that Jason's post-resurrection handling was an editorial decision that sucked, badly, and no one's happy with how that turned out.
The post-Flashpoint/New 52 universe was actually good for one thing: DC decided to take the opportunity to rehab Jason completely and reinvent him as an actual anti-hero. Tragically, this job got handed over to Scott (fucking) Lobdell, who proceeded to write Red Hood and the Outlaws and fuck everyone in that book over who wasn't named Jason Todd. While Kory was hit particularly badly in the beginning, Roy has borne the longest-lasting damage from that run. Also, Jason/Starfire was briefly a thing. We don't like to talk about that either. That being said, Jason's new post-resurrection history is much more positive (both for him and for the Batfamily) than it used to be, and we love that for him!
After his resurrection, he trained with the League of Assassins and the All-Caste (which included some really awesome anger management training that Jason proceeded to chuck directly in the trash can until after the events of Under the Red Hood)
Under the Red Hood happens
he worked out of Gotham as a ruthless anti-hero vigilante for a little bit. Battle for the Cowl is implied to have happened, possibly without the 'trying to murder Tim' bit (we're not really sure)
he hooked up with Roy Harper/Arsenal and Koriand'r/Starfire, formed the Outlaws, and went on several adventures. Also, he got magic swords, which was a cool af choice that DC continues to do absolutely nothing with
in between this, he worked with the Batfamily a bit; he helped out when the Court of Owls attacked Gotham (Night of Owls), helped them deal with the Joker when it's revealed the Joker knows their secret IDs (Death of the Family), and teamed up with Damian for a Batman Inc. arc (it went...poorly, but not as poorly as it could have)
He went back to the All-Caste and purposefully got his memory erased because he wouldn't just go to fucking therapy like a normal human being, then joined up with the League of Assassins for a hot second (Roy was trying to save his dumb ass this entire arc; thank god for Roy Harper, honestly)
Jason regained his memory and went on a few more adventures with the Outlaws, then worked with Roy for awhile after Bruce's presumed death (he really just had amnesia), then teamed up with the other Robins to help take down a villain called 'Mother'; this included an undercover operation w/Tim to take down a cult operating out of Santa Prisca
lots of other shit happens, he reformed the Outlaws (this time with Bizarro and Artemis, forming a sort of 'Dark Trinity'), had several more adventures, teamed up with the Batfam several more times, and got into lots and lots and lots of arguments with Bruce (there was an arc about his bio father Willis and Penguin, Bruce thought Jason broke the no-killing rule again, there was a pretty brutal fight...it sucked)
He went back to being a lethal solo vigilante for awhile, went back for vengeance against Penguin (again), shit with Leviathan (international criminal organization formerly run by Talia) happened, and finally he returned to Gotham as a solo hero
Where he helps Bruce hunt down 'Cheer' (a Joker/Scarecrow wannabe), he and Bruce finally make peace, and he agrees to give up his guns, go non-lethal, and start working with the Batfam again
And that is where we stand with Jason today (as of August 2021)! Who tf knows what's going to happen now, because we're officially in unchartered territory; this is the first time since Jason was resurrected in 2005 that DC is making a genuine, concerted effort to re-integrate him into the family instead of just being the Batfamily's 'sometimes ally prodigal brother/son with daddy issues galore'.
So, overall: lots of tragic and really awful narrative decisions on one hand, lots of shitty characterization but positive character development and family re-integration possibilities on the other. Take your pick!
#jason todd#long post#dc comics#batman#batfam#tim drake#dick grayson#bruce wayne#jason todd meta#sorry this was long but like.....let's be real there was ABSOLUTELY no easy answer to this question
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Bruce x Avenger Reader HC (Request) (fem g/n reader)
Bruce finding out that you’re an Avenger would include:
Bruce first of all knows that you work in NYC
you were pursuing your career outside of Gotham because NYC was the place to be for this
He’s very proud that you’re doing this but he doesn’t quite know that you’re also heroing out and about with a different team of heroes
he kinda doesn’t find out until you’re having to team up the Batfam and Avengers
you’re over talking with Natasha and Bruce gets the idea that you’re not all who you were making yourself out to be
you weren’t actually trying to hide anything at all
In fact, you knew that most of the family knew just cause you had teamed up with them
You just assumed that B knew
So Cass comes over to you and Nat cause like
Black Widow and my badass sibling are on a god level to me
Bruce is paying attention as he’s also bantering with Stark
“hey Cass.” You said, “Nat, this is my sister Cass.”
Nat nodded and smiled at her and Cass hugged her which she typically doesn’t do but like
omg
Bruce knows that it’s you then and there
Uh wtf
*protective dad mode* but then also like *dumbfounded proud dad moment*
He never really gets a chance to do much and talk to you since then you have to go on the mission
He’s really proud of you considering that you’re kinda like top tier player in the Avengers
He sees things that he taught you being implemented into your fighting style
A true bat at the core
He also sees how protective you are over your team especially the ones like Peter
He’s like another one of your siblings if you’re not dating or smt
Speaking of S/O’s, if you have one on the team, he’s doing research upon stalking research on them
But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t trust your own instincts
When the mission is over read the dust has settled, he goes over and talks to you
You immediately give him a hug cause like DAD YOU FORGOT TO HUG ME DUMBASS
he’s apologetic but like, how was I supposed to know that it was you
“You’re the world's greatest detective, I figured you’d know like everyone else.”
oops
He tells you that he’s proud of you for joining something and making your name
He does tell you to glare at Stark extra for him though
cause like
technically they’re actually really good friends but he and Stark play it off as not really liking each other just for the media and they both think that it’s funny
You are also more and more open to team ups all around now
Outlaws, your family, Titans, League, Avengers always, X-men, anything
He’s also more and more inclined to being a greater part of your life even if he already was
After knowing that he really didn’t know that you were on a whole separate team, he wants to make sure that he doesn’t miss anything else in your life that’s important
This experience has made him a better father 100%
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Nancy Drew and Education
So apparently the Clue Crew is full of teachers? Who knew. Well, as a former homeschooled student, current teacher, and (hopefully) future homeschooling parent/teacher I have been planning on integrating the games into lessons for a long time. Below the cut I have just a few of my many ideas (some more fleshed out than others). Feel free to use, adapt, or add your own!
SCK:
- Braille
o How blind/vision impaired people navigate the world
§ How we can make it more accessible for them
o How do braille books and printers work
- ASL
o Memorizing the alphabet and basic signs
§ Build up fluency
o How HOH/deaf people navigate the world
§ How we can make it more accessible for them
o Connections of ASL to other signed languages
§ French Sign Language versus British Sign Language
- Dangers of gas leaks
o What to do if you smell or hear gas
- Inequalities between mens and womens sporting opportunities
o See Women’s Soccer
- What are performance enhancing drugs
o What is the difference between #steroids and the steroids your doctor might prescribe
- How drug running is a gateway crime
- Why blackmailing people isn’t good
- More reasons to never move to Florida
- Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part one
STFD:
- Television in NYC
o Soap Operas
o How television sets work
o Role of director
o Teleprompters
o Props
o Agents
- Theatre in NY
o Broadway
§ Learn a show
o Carnegie Hall
- Dangers in the ways we obsess over celebrities
o Paparazzi
o Stalkers
o Respecting privacy
- NY taxi system
- NY regional accents
- NY as a center for immigration – salad bowl
o Ellis Island
- History of NYC
o Geography of NYC
- Typewriters
- Towers of Hanoi
- Encoding
- How to make chocolates (with or without poison)
- Read along:
o New York the Novel (Edward Rutherford)
o The Power Broker
o All of a Kind Family
MHM:
- San Francisco Gold Rush
- Earthquake and Fires in San Fran
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Angel Island
o Asian (Chinese) Immigration to the USA
- Chinese Zodiac
- Fortune telling (and why it’s not okay)
- Bed and Breakfasts
- San Francisco today
o Technology boom
o Overpriced everything
§ How this hurts established residents
§ Homelessness in San Fran
- Bandits in the American West
- Hauntings in American buildings
- How to remove and install tile
- Renovations – refurbish something
- Antiques
o Visit an antique shop
- Importance of fire safety
- How to install lighting fixtures properly
- How to fix a dumbwaiter
o How not to be a dumb waiter
- Tangrams
- What is the Victorian period
o Significance of Queen Victoria
- Read Along:
o Little Brother
o Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America
o Angel Island Gateway to Golden Mountain
TRT:
- The French Revolution
o Marie Antoinette
o Women and the French Revolution
o Worldwide effects of the Revolution
o Historians of the French Revolution
- Writing history
o How we can focus on different events in history, how we can be sympathetic to certain people, how we can fulfill different spaces in the historical narrative, criticism of history as a field, entering history as a field
- Wisconsin Dairy industry
- Alarm systems and how they work
- Fingerprinting
- Elevator safety
- Ski lifts
o Skiing
- Vandalism
- Taking care of libraries
- Latitude and longitude
- Keeping records of good events and bad events
o Nothing you do will ever stop me from loving you
- Some people keep different sleep schedules
- Journalism
- Making translations
- Why France has different holidays – to keep the ski lodges from getting too full
FIN:
- History of theatre spaces
- Use of film at theatres
- Magicians
o Houdini
o Learn a ‘magic’ trick
- Library of Congress
- Demolition – wrecking balls
o What’s involved
- Plaster casts
- Historic register of buildings
o Visit a local historic building
- Price of concessions and movie tickets today
- Nickelodeons
- Celebrity stunts for attention from press
o Celebrity endorsements
- Jazz music
o Dancing
- Kidnapping stories
o What to do if someone tries to grab you
- Rubber vs. electricity
- Art/artists of the 20s
SSH:
- Numbering systems (particularly ones not based on 10)
- Cultures of South America
o Maya
§ Cultural understandings
§ Connections to what appears at Beech Hill
o Aztec
o Inca
- Myths of lesser civilizations because of European preconceptions
- Why do countries have consulates/embassies in other countries
- What is amnesia and other medical memory issues
- Provenance and why its important part one
- Roles and responsibilities within a museum
o Visit a museum
o How to be critical of a museum and how knowledge is presented to you
- Modern art
o Make your own
o Visit a modern art museum
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Positive and negative molds for casting
DOG:
- Prohibition
o Speakeasys
o Amendments to constitution
o Drinking age restrictions
§ Comparison of USA to European countries
o Connections to modern drug policies
- Recognizing and photographing local birds
- Dangers in the forest – ticks and other pests
- Why water sources are important
o Flint water crisis
- Visit a state park
o Importance of maintaining public land
- Alcatraz
- How to care for dogs
- Noise pollution
o Light pollution
CAR:
- History of carousels
o Visit a carousel
- Lathes
- Harmonicas
- Band organs
- Writing messages with lemon juice and other hidden inks
- How to iron
o How not to iron
- How to make a sundae
- How amusement park rides are designed
- Soldering
- What is parole
o Welcoming those who have been in prison back to society
o Problems with the American prison system
§ How it disproportionately affects minority groups
o What can be done in prison reform
o Abuses in prison
o Making mental and spiritual help and guidance more available
o Making sanitary products available
o Prison for profit hurts everybody except the prison owner
o Educational opportunities for those in prison
o More half-way help
o Juvenile sentencing reform – more out of system help
o Respecting humanity of prisoners
o Ending the death penalty
- Depression
o How to get help
o How to help others
o Dealing with loss
DDI:
- Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest
- Orcas and other whales
o Whaling industry in Northwest and Northeast
o Things whale products were used for
o Visit natural history museum with whale exhibition
- Visit an aquarium with a good reputation
o Problems with places that do not take care of their sea life – particularly large sea life like whales
- What is a chowder and how is it made
o Try or make chowder
- Crabs
o Restrictions on different types of crabs – what type is local
o Try a crab dish
- Importance of different knots
o Get some rope and learn how to tie different knots
- Know the NATO alphabet and letter flags
- Boating knowledge
o Go on a boating trip – know the port and starboard sides
- Learn how to kayak
- Try to learn how to skip rocks
- Visit a lighthouse
o Importance and histories of lighthouses
- Smuggling – what is it and why does it happen
- Shanghaiing
- Chess
SHA:
- The continuous oppression and mistreatment of Native Americans
o From Mayflower to Pocahontas to Trail of Tears to Dakota to DAPL to Reservations to food deserts to voting rights to much much more
§ How to support current Native voices and concerns
o Why Native Americans are not a costume
o “Possession” of Native American objects and land
§ Arrowheads and native jewelry
o Broad overview of regional Native American groups – using their own voices
§ Special focus on local Native American groups
· Is there a local museum/educational resource that is either Native created or known for respecting Native voices
o Current Native Americans of note (ex: politicians, activists, artists)
o While the previous focuses on Native Americans in the modern day USA – also discuss First Nations from Canada and Native Groups from more southern areas
- Why temperature and pan matters when baking (show what happens in the oven when it goes wrong)
- Magnets and how different metals react differently to magnets
- How to take care of a horse and other farm animals
o Visit a local farm
o Try horse-riding
- Dangers of rattle snakes and scorpions
- Lassos and how to use them
- Legends of outlaws in the American West
- Ghost towns
- Flower stitches when knitting/crocheting
- Petrified wood
- How to make a campfire
- Picking fruits and veggies when they are ready
- Flower language
- Read Along:
o Native American folk tales
o Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
o Gone Away Lake
o Black Beauty?
CUR:
- Where are the moors
- Different regional accents within the United Kingdom
- British foods
- Latin
o Learn fun phrases and prayers
- Ancestry and genealogy
o Map your own family tree and recognize family crests
o How adoption has historically been a binding and irrefutable concept for lineage
o Find places your family lived
o Leaving a history for your descendants
§ Write a story book for them
o British Royal Family
§ Why incest is bad
- Parrots and their intelligence
- Secret passages in old buildings
- Alchemy
o Connections to modern understandings of science
o Historical understandings of elements
- Astrological signs
- Witch trials
- Legends of lycanthropy and other monsters
- Importance of not taking other peoples medicines
- Runic alphabet
- Feeding your pets a healthy diet
- Typing practice
- How to embrace the idea that home taught students are evil geniuses
- Forges and melting points of different metals
- Carnivorous plants
- Succulents
- Constellations in different places
- Read Along:
o The Secret Garden
o The London Eye Mystery
o Beastly
CLK:
- Great Depression
o Causes and effects
o Who was hurt
o Who was not hurt
o Areas of America
§ Dust bowl
o Famous people and literature
o Homelessness and poverty
§ Bread lines
§ Soup kitchens
§ Anti-homelessness architecture
§ Connections to mental illness and veterans
§ How we can help those who do not have homes today
- Early Telephones
- Shakespeare
- History of Nancy Drew
o Mildred Wirt Benson
o Edward Stratemeyer
- Fishing – why different fish respond to different bait
- Orphanages in the early 20th century
- Gas prices and accessibility of cars through time
- How to make pie
- What is jurisdiction and what is significant about crossing state lines
- How do banks work
o Safety deposit boxes
- Identify theft
- How to use a sewing machine
o Sew an item of clothing
- Mini golf – why and what
- Mirrors and their usefulness
- Stamp collections
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- Radios and call signs
o Comparison to modern internet forms
- Telegrams
- Read along:
o Shakespeare
§ Midsummer Night’s Dream
§ Others
o Pollyanna
o Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
o The Grapes of Wrath
TRN:
- Trains
o Steam trains
o Visit a train museum
o Take a train ride (if not a normal event)
o Importance of transcontinental railway
o Trains around the USA today
o Trains around the world (TGV, bullet train)
- Abraham Lincoln
- Mark Twain
- How to make a good burger (you leave off the PB&J)
- Slugs
- Periodic Table of Elements – abbreviations
- Gemstones
- History of Mining
o England (Newcastle upon Tyne)
o American West
o Appalachia
o Company Store
o Health issues for miners
o Danger of mines
o Current issues for mining
- Dancing the Hurley Burley
- People who collect creepy dolls
o History of porcelain dolls
- Embroidery
o How to
o Patterns/symbols
- General Stores in the American West
o Sears
- How to make taffy
- Find a well maintained and beautiful tomb and research who is entombed
- Focusing light through a magnifying glass can start a fire
- Read Along:
o Murder on the Orient Express
o Mark Twain books
DAN:
- All lessons in French
- How using different ingredients and different amounts of ingredients can affect the outcome of your cookies
- Paris métro
o History
o How to read/follow a métro map
o RER
- Montmartre and other Parisian neighbourhoods
- History of Île de la France and Square de Vert Galant Parc and Pont Neuf
- WWII and the French Resistance
o Cross of Lorraine
o Vichy France
o Abuses of the French gov’t in this period
- Paris and the fashion world
- Beauty standards and the rejection of natural beauty by society
o Dangers of weight and figure standards
o You are beautiful as you are
- Catacombs of Paris
- Famous French Dishes (from this region)
o Or Bretagne since I know and like them better
- The French Café
- Moulin in France
- Tea and how hot leaf water can taste so bad but still be good for you
- Buildings of Baron Haussmann
- Paris History
- Decoders
- Importance of vitraux historically, culturally, and religiously
- Read Along:
o Little Kids
§ Madeline
§ Babar
§ Petit Ours
§ Plume
o High School
§ Hunchback of Notre Dame
§ Les Mis
§ Dale Van Kley
CRE:
- History of Hawai’i and her native people
o How the USA screwed them over and continues to do so
§ Land colonizing today
o Listen to voices from Native Peoples
- Pearl Harbor
o USS Arizona
- Native myths and legends
- Local flora and fauna
- Surfing
- How to make bead necklaces
- Snorkeling
- Entomology
o Find some local bugs and identify and observe them
- Horticulture
o See if you can graft something
o Watch a carnation placed in water with food dye
o Regrow a fruit or veggie from the leftovers
- Go looking for seashells – see how many complete shells you can find
- Be aware of pesticides and the dangers they offer
o Dangers of organic food too
- Make something with pineapple in it
- Fishing – different kinds of native fish
- Volcanos
- Hula
ICE:
- Wolf sanctuaries – respecting wildlife and their place in the wild and not the domestic
o What to do if you see a wolf in the real world
- Fur trapping in Canada history
- Regions and Capitols of Canada
o Visit Canada?
- How the Canadian government works
- Use of French language in Canada
o Unique features of Canadian French
- Ice fishing
- How to cook omelets, salmon, etc.
o How to not add paprika cause like ew
- Fossils
- Radiation
o Marie Curie
- How to be a good maid
- Snowballs/ice balls
- Ice skating
- Winter weather safety
- Avalanches
- Saunas
- Birthmarks
- Fax machines
- How to not lie about bird watching
- Frozen water safety
- Modern offenses against First Nations by Canadian Government
CRY:
- Culture of the Arawak and Caraïbe
o Voodoo
- Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Hurricane Katrina and aftermath
- French Influence
- Eyes and their parts and functions
- Teeth and their parts and functions
- Alligators in the Southern USA and how they are dangerous pests
- Graveyards/cemeteries and how to be comfortable in them
o Modern burial practices
o Why are they above ground in Louisiana?
o Places where they are running out of space for the dead
o Historic violations of final resting places
- Ventriloquism
- Lizards and how to care for them
- Rube Goldberg machines
- Curio shops
- Crystal Skulls
VEN:
- International crime
- Organized crime
- Scopa
- Italian basics
o Learn an Italian aria
- Italian food
o Not just spaghetti
- History of Venice
o Current issues in Venice
- Carrier pigeons
- Micro-dots
- “Observing the architecture”
- Try to make gelato (or just get gelato, either way you get gelato)
- Disguising yourself – put on an outfit and try to get me to not recognize you
- Picking locks
- Secret codes
- Solfege
o With hand signs
o Learn a song in solfege
- Carnivale
- Learn how the sausage gets made
o How to deal with food poisoning
- How to secure your living space against burglars
o Glass breaks, motion sensors, keypads, magnets, and more
- Read Along:
o Heist Society
o The Prince
o Merchant of Venice
HAU:
- Irish lessons (as much of this in Irish as possible)
o Why the Irish language is important
- Geography of Ireland
o Provinces and counties
- Irish names
- Why Ireland has disliked and should dislike the UK
o Historically
o Famine
§ Emmigration
o Easter Rising
o Troubles
o Present-Day
- Importance of alcohol in Ireland
o Uisce beatha
o Guinness
§ Guinness world records
- Irish music
o Irish instruments
o Learn some Rebel songs
- Ogham runes
- Irish foods
o Something with lamb, who cares what
- Don’t use friends for land development
- Bogs
- Chemical Reactions
- Rockets
- Inventions and secrecy during WWII
- Religion in Ireland
o Pagan traditions
o Christianity
o Catholic/Protestant tensions
- Irish wedding traditions
- How printing presses work
- Irish castles
- Sheep sheering/raising sheep
- Irish legends
o Fae
o Leprechauns
- Don’t drive and talk on the phone
RAN:
- Why blackface is problematic? (the fact that this needs to be said is problematic in and of itself)
- Scuba diving
- Sailing
- Bermuda Triangle
- Bats
- Primates and their intelligence
o Problems with animal research
o Koko
o Jane Goodall
- Island resort culture
- Metal detectors
- Pirates
o And the Caribbean
o Their abuses
o Different kinds
o Modern day pirates
- How do walkie-talkies work
- US mistreatment of island territories
- Read Along:
o Bloody Jack (Meyer)
WAC:
- Edgar Allan Poe
o Stories
o Baltimore
- Piano
- Victorian Dining traditions
o How to set a place for fancy dining
o How to fold napkins
o Table manners
o How to serve someone at a fancy dinner
o How courses might work
o How to use your silverware
- Why you shouldn’t go to an actual high school part two
o Just fyi – that’s not how uniforms work
§ Have a school inspired dress code for a week
- Bullying and why you absolutely will not be a bully
o How to respond to bullying
o Importance of talking to adults and counseling
- Logic puzzles
- Research the founding of a local school
- Stringed Instruments
- Plagiarism
o Turnitin
- Making sandwiches – like a good deli style sandwich
- Photography scavenger hunt – make a digital (or physical) yearbook
- Squirrels
- Orthographic projection
- DNA/RNA
- Saving every major project on three different thumb drives
- Getting along with roommates
- States and Capitals
o Countries and capitals of the world
TOT:
- Tornados
o Technology used to observe tornados
- Meteorology
- Prairie dogs
- Life on the great plains
- Great Plains Native Americans
- Small towns in the Midwest honestly be like that
- Defensive driving
- Make a disaster kit
- Know what to do in various natural emergency situations
o What is the local alert protocol
o What do local authorities recommend
- How to maintain and fix a car
- How to fix a broken device
- What is tenure
- How to budget
o Go to the grocery store on a strict budget (however much you come in under budget is your candy budget)
- Read Along:
o Little House
SAW:
- Basic Japanese phrases
o Learn to count
o Writing in Japanese
- Sudoku, nonograms, renograms
- Japanese ghost legends
- Japanese culture
o Tourism
§ Ryokans
o Space – everything small
o Politeness/formalities
o Hot springs/baths
o Tatami and paper walls
- Japanese cultural dress
o Kimonos
o Lolita? Fashion
- Japanese names
o Last name first
o How to address others in Japan
- Martial Arts
o Ninjutsu
§ Traditional tools
- Japanese tea ceremony
- Schools in Japan
- Teaching English as a foreign language
- Japanese subway/train system
- Pachinko and Japanese gaming
- Japanese vending machines
- Robotic animals
- Bento
- Japanese foods
- Origami
- How to fake a haunting
CAP:
- Basic German phrases
o How to make a German word
o Connections of German to English
- German food favourites
o Especially cakes
- Storytelling as a cultural entity
o How memory has worked differently in different times
- Glass blowing
- How castles provided for the local community
- Bavaria in Germany
o Cultural dress
- Glockenspiel
- How to make board games
- Monster stories of central Europe
- How to monitor security camera remotely
- Read Along:
o Heidi
ASH:
- Arson
o Watching how different accelerants burn a piece of paper
- All politicians are at least somewhat self-serving
o But write a letter to a local politician anyway
§ Different ways to contact elected officials, and why some don’t work
- How to make ice cream
- How a police investigation works
o Problems with police departments around the world – specifically USA
o Ways that police work unfairly targets minorities
§ If Nancy is innocent how many others are
- How to use matches and lighters safely
- Why you should not return to the scene of a crime – particularly a fire
- Making sure smoke detectors work properly and the system is connected
o We might not go to school but fire drills are still important
- What is a mass spectrometer
- Who to call if you’ve been arrested
- What to do if you get pulled over
- How the media can skew the truth and make their own narratives
- Sound mixing
- Be careful with what you say/post/record
o Keep receipts and clarify when possible
TMB:
- What not to do at an archaeological site
- Ancient Egyptian History
o Pantheon, notable figures, relevant events
o Pyramids, sphinx
o Pharaohs
- Modern Egypt
o Arabic alphabet
- History of archaeological digs in Egypt
o Why they’ve been problematic
- Dangers of the tombs
- Mummys
o How they are put together
- Tomb raiders
- Importance of water in the desert
- How to piece together a broken artifact
- How to gently brush off an artifact
- There is no such thing as a dictionary for ancient Egyptian
- Aliens did not build the pyramids
- Senet
- Desert life safety
- How mirrors can be used to light a room
- Read Along
o Rick Riordan
DED:
- Nikola Tesla
o All his fun stuff
o Tesla Coils
- 3-D printing
- Gummy fingerprints
- Faraday Cage
- Basic electric concepts
o How to build a circuit board
- Chemical safety
- How a lab might work
- Valuing different skills within academia
- Ultraviolet light
- How motorcycles work
- Freelance photography
- How to use academic databases
GTH:
- Slavery in the United States
o Origins
o ‘End’
o Civil War
o The connection to “southern culture”
o Continued abuses of Black people in America
§ Importance of recognizing Black voices and what they are saying
§ Listening even when it’s uncomfortable
§ Checking privilege when you have it
o Jim Crow Laws
- Plantations
- Gone With the Wind
o The good and the bad
- Civil War spies – female
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Burned out houses are not a safe space
- Do not go digging through people’s coffins – rest in PEACE
- Understanding that your family can be flawed
- If you don’t want to get married, if you’re not happy in a relationship, end it
- When a member of your family is sick you take care of them
- Make a will, just in case your cousin kills you
- Bachelor and bachelorette parties should feature activities that everyone is comfortable with
- Read Along:
o My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier
SPY:
- Scotland and their identity
o Celtic Nations
o Independent Scotland
o Call a Scottish person
- Unicorns and other mythical creatures in Scotland
- Scottish food
o The appetizing parts
- History of spies
- Biowarfare
o Code Orange
o Other teenage stories dealing with anthrax
o Current events and concerns
o Historical biowarfare (smallpox blankets)
- Ziplining
- Archery
- How to bug someone
- Tartans and plaids
o Kilts
- Augmented Reality Glasses
- Record players
- How to reset a circuit breaker
- Read Along:
o Gallagher Girls
o Code Orange
o Little House (Martha)
o Little Brother (Doctorow)
MED:
- Don’t meet your heroes
- New Zealand
o Maori culture
- Survivor style game shows and realism
- I’m not saying Aliens can’t exist, I’m saying they def aren’t involved here
- Kayaking
- Submarines and what they can do
- Turtles
- Earthquakes
- Be careful with rope bridges
LIE:
- Provenance and why it’s important part two
- Greek art and how it was originally painted vibrantly
o Abuses of Greek art through the ages
- The British Museum and the issues with that
- Greek pantheon
o Legends and notable figures
o Religious traditions
- Iliad and Odyssey
- Art forgery
- How to fire clay pots and pottery
- Memorizing lines for a play
o Staging for a play
o Role of a director
- Theatre
o Lights
o Curtains
o Fly system
o Sound
- Greek alphabet
- Historical importance of the Greek language and culture
o Alexander the Great and Hellenization
- Olympics
o Historic and modern
- Greece and the European Union
- Make something with pomegranates
- Read Along:
o Iliad
o Odyssey
o The Thief
o Percy Jackson
SEA:
- Iceland
o Culture
§ Naming traditions
o Language
o Music
o Food
- Shipbuilding
o Historic and modern ships
- Ice caving
- Northern Lights
- Tides
- Snowmobiling
- Poetry
- What is xenophobia
MID:
- Some games just shouldn’t be made
- American witch trials
o What actually went down
o Misconceptions
- Treating people with albinism as real people
- Arson is bad
- Herbal remedies and how they can interfere with modern medicine
- Witchcraft and how not to
- Salem MA
- Ignorance promotes fear and hatred so we do our best to learn about others
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Blog Tour + #Review: HEARTLESS PRINCE by Leigh Dragoon & Angela De Vito (w/ #giveaway)!
Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the Rockstar Book Tours blog tour for the graphic novel Heartless Prince, written by Leigh Dragoon, story and illustration by Angela De Vito. I’ve got all the details for you below, along with my review and a 3-copy giveaway!
About the Book
title: Heartless Prince
author: Leigh Dragoon
illustrator: Angela De Vito
publisher: Disney-Hyperion
release date: 2 November 2021
A fierce warrior must save the heart of her beloved prince before it's too late in the first book of a new YA fantasy-adventure graphic novel trilogy, perfect for fans of Noelle Stevenson's Nimona and Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet
Evony is an orphaned princess from a kingdom destroyed by a power-hungry witch. Prince Ammon has recently been drawn to her, or at least he’s drawn to her uncanny ability to sense when familiars—servants to the witches—are approaching his kingdom’s borders. And Evony, well Evony has always longed for something more with Ammon. Wanting to prove himself to his kingdom and parents, Ammon takes Evony outside the borders to fight the familiars head-to-head. All is well until they’re captured by witch Aradia, who steals Ammon’s heart and leaves his body to turn into one of her familiars. What’s worse, his sister Nissa has been taken hostage by Aradia’s daughter. Evony makes it her mission to retrieve Ammon’s heart and save Nissa, taking her into the mysterious Witchlands. There, she will discover a secret about her past that will change everything.
Add to Goodreads: Heartless Prince
Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | TBD | Bookshop.org
Reviews:
An enchanting, intense tale of mystery and magic - this book reveals both the vision and vibrant, young talents of Angela and Leigh throughout dense and rich pages full of visual delight and narrative wit.―Matias Bergara, illustrator of CODA
The Heartless Prince is a romantic and thrilling fantasy with strong characters and compelling twists.―Victoria Ying, author of City of Secrets
With a palette of whimsical hues and a heartful cast of characters, HEARTLESS PRINCE is a fantastic read full of witches, adventure, and destiny. I can't wait to devour the sequel!―Hafsah Faizal, NYT bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame
About the Author & Illustrator
LEIGH DRAGOON was raised in a log cabin in the Adirondacks, where she developed an early love of reading and writing. She became a fan of Little Women at age nine, after Beth’s demise made her bawl herself to sleep. This led to a lifelong appreciation of the book. After years of annual rereads, she became fascinated with learning about Louisa May and her family. She adapted both Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy and Marie Lu’s Legend series into graphic novel scripts. She has also written two prose Adventure Time novels: Queen of Rogues and The Lonesome Outlaw.
Connect with Leigh: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | Goodreads | BookBub
ANGELA DE VITO is a freelance animator, storyboard artist, and character designer working in NYC. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Animation in 2014. Since then she has worked on animation for commercials and series pitches. Angela has worked for such studios as Hornet, Inc.; Titmouse, Inc.; Aardman Nathan Love; Click 3X; CHRLX; and Disney Digital Network. She also animation directed Comedy Central Digital’s Loafy, created by Bobby Moynihan. She lives with her family and her two adorable, rambunctious cats.
Connect with Angela: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads
My 3.5-Star Review
Heartless Prince was a quick fairy tale read with beautiful art and a gorgeous color palette. The concept of the story reminded me a bit of the Heartless series by Sara Wolf, with witches who take humans’ hearts to bind them as familiars and gain power. In this case, a witch takes the heart of the kingdom’s prince, and the orphan girl his parents took in and raised (princess of a neighboring kingdom that was destroyed by a witch) goes on a mission to retrieve his heart and save his life. In the process, she discovers more about her own origins. I love that it is the princess-warrior who is saving the life of the prince in this one, as well as that his younger sister is a strong and brave girl in her own right. I will say, however, that I actually wish this was longer so that we had more of the backstory given to us. The beginning was a bit confusing, and I feel it could have benefited from more text; the story just felt abbreviated and left me wanting more. The art is really lovely, though, and the color palette is gorgeous; also, it was easy to follow changes in locations thanks to the color changes.
Overall, it was a fun, quick story, and while I wanted to know more, I did enjoy reading it. I would be interested in picking up the next two books in the trilogy to see where the story takes us!
Rating: 3.5 stars
**Disclosure: I received an eARC of the book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.
About the Giveaway
Three (3) lucky winners will each receive a finished copy of Heartless Prince by Leigh Dragoon and Angela De Vito! This one is US only and ends 3 December 2021. Enter via the Rafflecopter below, and good luck!
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About the Tour
Here’s the first week’s schedule for this month-long tour so you can see all the great content.
Week One:
11/1/2021 - For the Love of KidLit - Excerpt
11/2/2021 - BookHounds YA - Excerpt
11/3/2021 - Kait Plus Books - Excerpt
11/4/2021 - Book-Keeping - Review **you are here!
11/5/2021 - Books Are Magic Too - Review
11/6/2021 - Nerdophiles - Review
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