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...Gunn was also asked about any other projects that might be in the early planning stages that have yet to be disclosed to the public, and revealed that "his favorite thing" has yet to be announced. It seems Gunn felt that this mysterious movie or TV series might be too easy for another company - we're going to take a wild guess and assume he's referring to Marvel Studios - to "rip off." "My favorite thing has not been announced at all. One of the scripts people kind of know about. My script people don't know about. The other script people don't know about. So it's mostly stuff people don't know about.... A couple of those things [announced in January 2023] are in pretty good shape in terms of coming up, but there was one thing that I knew about from the very beginning, that when I pitched to David Zaslav what the DCU would be, I pitched to him, but we did not announce in that first meeting because I felt like it was too easy to rip off by another company. And so that's one of the main things."

The Sgt Rock bit about how its not being entirely cancelled I've covered before (I'm really looking forward to that one), but there being something that's been in production and unannounced since the original Gods and Monsters announcement in 2023 is intriguing. Especially as they didn't announce it due to (implicitly Marvel Studios) rushing out something similar to rip off the idea...

The thing with DC is that it could almost be literally anything, and in the comics especially Marvel seems to have a habit of releasing suspiciously similar characters and events in the comics shortly after DC does something (from way back when the creator of the Doom Patrol thought Stan Lee ripped him off to make the X-Men right up to Marvel's Catwoman-knock-off Black Cat becoming a mob boss shortly after Catwoman did over in DC's books).

For example, the idea might be to loosely adapt the comic Mystik U (a comic where various DC magical characters, such as Zatanna, attend a magical university to hone their powers and network with other people in the same community), which could work as an efficient "in" to the magical side of the DCU without having another story starring John Constantine (I like the character, but in the New 52 especially DC acted as if he was the ONLY magician they had).

However, a short while after Mystik U concluded Marvel began publishing Strange Academy, which featured a magical university to hone their powers and network with other people in the same community (including several with "evil powers" and a connection to an established supervillain, much like Mystik U did with some of their cast).

Now as the late great Terry Pratchett once said, magical schools are a popular trope that both goes back centuries (a folkloric Scholomance is even referenced in Dracula) without getting into more recent examples that still predate Harry Potter (Once and Future King, Earthsea, the Worst Witch, the Unseen University from Pratchett's own Discworld series etc.), it could still be a weird coincidence that Marvel released a book about a magical school after DC had some critical acclaim with their own comic about one...

...BUT, if DC Studios were to announce a Mystik U show or movie, for example, I totally can see Marvel Studios taking advantage of DC Studio's longer production times to bash out their own Strange Academy show (maybe bringing in Ned Leeds from their Spider-man movies) first to capitalise on the idea first.

LIkewise it could DC Studios reviving a particular format for stories, such as bringing back the long scrapped animated anthology series they were going to do in 2019, to take the Love, Death + Robots / Star Wars: Visions / Secret Level approach to showcasing their deep catalogue of characters.

Like I said, could be anything.

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Luca Gennatiempo, In The Circle

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convinced my 10 y/o nephew to watch naruto and he sent me this i'm screaming

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Senate parliamentarian strikes key SNAP spending cuts from GOP megabill

The Senate parliamentarian on Friday ruled against several more Republican provisions in President Trump’s megabill, including language to bar immigrants who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents from receiving food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5361910-senate-parliamentarian-strikes-snap-spending-cuts-gop-megabill/

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me and the kid i adopted from my queer platonic rival

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ib: crepuscularqueens

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Visiones Del Fin by vandrell

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was going through some of my health records and some doctor put “dresses oddly” next to my psychotic symptoms. hey fuck you too man

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Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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"women are always like—"

"men are always like—"

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lets cling to a branch with mama