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And so, Fourth World Week is officially over. We'd like to thank anyone who participated in this event and we hope to see you again next year! Also if you have anything you haven't had the time to post, don't worry, we also accept late submissions.

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DAY 7- FREE DAY

I'm going to break format for a second and pour my heart and soul out for a quick second so excuse me.

I want to say thank you so much @fourthworldweek for hosting this event for all of us new and old in the fandom to part take in. This is my very first fan event that I have ever part taken in and this has built up my confident to post again.

In a world full to brim with GAII (Generative artificial intelligence imagery .) I've seen so much improvement and I'm so glad I get to leave a piece of my artist journey with this fandom. Not only that, this is the very first fandom I've felt welcomed in outside of the Captain Marvel fandom (shouting out my home fandom) so again thank you for having me❤️

(Isn't it funny that I am actively drawn to superhero characters that have light/energy based powers?)

you know I had to include my baby girl Carol Danvers in this picture with Lightray.

Also I'm in love with the new hair rendering technique so 20/10 will be doing it again!

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DAY 6- LORE/ FIFTH WORLD

First here's a drawing of me burning out:

(And now back to your regular scheduled fan posting.)

When your world ends, carry on!

Metron X Oc (Rosie Sky walker)

Warning- swearing, angst, Mentions of death, Mention of Medical procedures.

Word count (approx.)-632 words

Synopsis- When Rosie finds out the origins of her powers she goes and confronts the one man she knows would know. will she like the answer she is provided or will she be left destroyed?

A/N- This for @fourthworldweek fan event. So I was meant to draw up a comic but I got caught up with uni work and so forth so I hope you enjoy little ficlet instead. This is a little bit of OC lore.

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The lab was peaceful. Machines humming buzzing taps dripping.

Metron paid no mind to the sounds of the floating city. He leans forwards, fingers prodding at the loose wires of the Motherbox in front of him.

Tiny pings call out for him

"I know. I know" He speaks to her, Voice Monotonous.

He kept welding and fixing this went on for a while.

Footsteps, light at first but soon grow heavier and heavier- and…

"SLAM!"

"YOU LYING FUCK!"

Metron almost dropped the hot welding iron onto his lap as he turned to face the intruder.

"You lied to me!" Rosie said, her voice elevated with panic. Anger translated perfectly on her face- she was almost glowing, her uniform smoking.

"I don't know what you mean."

Rosie got all up in face. "Cut the bullshit."

He actually knew exactly what she meant by that statement but he wasn't going to entertain her with the truth- not just yet.

"You know exactly where my powers came from."

A smug look presented itself on his face. "OH! That."

he leaned back on the Mobius Chair, it creaked and whirred as he turned, crossed- legged, knowing it will wind her up.

"Well, maybe I did."

Rosie knows she has every right to hit him but instead she managed to keep her cool. She leaned back on the work bench warping and melting the material with her powers.

"Please…I Wouldn't beg you, but Gallahan told me everything. Please- just tell me the truth."

Metron thought of Gallahan, A scientific mind turned harden rebel fighter. A strange Feeling over a him at the thought of her.

He sighed. "You fell to the surface of New Genesis. The landscape had changed, almost as if its was different terrain altogether."

She looked pissed. "I know this already. Lonar brought me to Hightfather."

"Well, yes and Hightfather brought you to me- for this wasn't the first time I was dealing with such affairs "

Guilt wrecked his body as the memories of a Young Solis now Lightray barely alive as Metron Fought for the little boy's life.

He went on to explain about what test he did and how he did them. With every second, Rosie grew restless.

"I spent night trying to bring you back but then I found it."

"Found what?"

"Fragments of the source wall bonded to your bones. The bomb must of used it as a power source- but somehow, it warped you. Changed you. Mutated you."

The bench groaned as it splits and splinters.

"So you knew this whole time" Rosie screamed

"No. Not the first time but when I saw the reading I knew. There have been other like you but nothing nor nobody

She clenched her fist. "You didn't think to tell me?"

"And loose the greatest discov-" She cuts him off.

"Is that all I all I am to you? Just a step in fulling your obsession with the source?"

Now that struck a nerve with him. Never has Metron stood up so fast, fingers pointed dangerously at her, red in the face.

"You're a danger, a weapon, and a liability to New Genesis!"

"WHAT ABOUT MY PEOPLE? ON EARTH?"

Let me ask you a question. What happens when you get recaptured? What happens when you lose control? What would you do?" Now that struck a cord with Rosie.

Quite once again.

She didn't say a word as she left the room with tears in her eye.

Metron was left alone, even stunned by his own words. He stared at the Mother Box in front of him, then carried on fixing her.

Was he too hard on her? Well, he'll find out sooner or later.

The world wasn’t ending—not quite yet—so he still had all the time in universe to work.

END.

WAIT! You made this far so I wanted to show you a sneak peak of the sketched of the comic that this fic was actual meant to be. I will post it at a later date. (Picture is under cut.)

Thanks for reading❤️

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My creation for @fourthworldweek day 7, free day! I've had a ton of writer's block lately, but I've been really into making minizines, so instead of writing something I made a zine version of a new gods fic by thrakaboom that I really love.

Link to the original fic: https://www.cfaarchive.org/works/367. Please leave comments and kudos and love for the author over there!!

Printable version under the cut!

Also, a little bit of self promo: if you have writing or art and you think it'd be cool for it to be in a minizine, I'm running @unofficialdcminizine! It's a project where people can submit writing, art, photography, or literally any type of creative project, and some of it will be included in a minizine.

You can submit stuff for a themed minizine or just submit to the general one. If there's no theme you like at the moment, you can submit an idea for a theme, I use the form to gauge interest in different ideas so I highly recommend suggesting something that you'd be interested in! You can submit as much or as little as you want, works can be as new or old as you want, and there's no limit to how much something can be posted before or after being submitted. There are some rules, which are all included in the pinned post :3

Printable version, made with the electric zine maker. Scaled for US letter paper (8.5" x 11"), folded like a typical 8-page minizine. Feel free to print your own!

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Fourth World week 2025 day 7 free day

A Jack Kirby's Fourth fanfiction for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World week 2025 day 7 free day.

In the dark depths of Apokolips, a gray skin young man with red eyes and a normal skin man wearing green armor travel through the tunnels until they reach a big door where a woman and a man wearing a purple hood were waiting for them and the woman begs to the gray skin man, "Uxas, please change your mind. Desaad warn me about what you are about to do and we have come to stop you." and Uxas turn his head to the man wearing purple and said to him, "Desaad, you were not post to tell anyone about this." and the nervous Desaad said, "I was seeing to your safety, Prince Uxas. I serve my lord." Uxas said to Desaad, "You will put Suli at risk for this, Desaad." while the man wearing green ask Uxas, "Why did you bring that man from New Genesis to our home, Uxas?" which the prince answer, "Mayhem, I have to show my horrible mother proof that I can be cruel as father, but I'm not going to be a true monster like him. With his heart corrupted, Desaad has become a great help along with his sister Bernadeth, whose work with Gretchen in forming a strike force for my future rule when we will united Apokolips as one to overthrow my horrible mother and be a copy of our enemy." Uxas said to his friends, "My friends, and Desaad, for me to prove myself better than my parents, I must have a name that will speak power to all that hear it and I has choose the name of the Great Darkness itself. To calmed its name, I must do battle with it and best it." and Suli begs to Uxas, "But Uxas, you will be killed." which he said, "Fear not, Suli. The Omega Force will keep me alive and bring me victory." and Uxas open the door to the darkness.

The moment that he open the door, Uxas find himself falling through darkness and there is nothing but a empty void, which Uxas guess right away is the body of the Great Darkness itself. Just then, Uxas hear a voice speak to him, "So, you has come to take my name, little god. I'm Darkseid and I am the empty void, while you has just a prince trying to escape his past." Uxas shout to the Great Darkness, "I'm Uxas, the future ruler of Apokolips! My father, the cruel Yuga Zonuz, is the most powerful being in existence, and I have slay my own brother Drax for the Omega Force! I will calmed your name and bring Apokolips to greatness!" which the Great Darkness said, "Well then, Uxas! Best me as you can!" and Uxas feel himself getting attacked, but he cannot see who is attacking him. Uxas quickly use a beam of his Omega Force to blast, hitting something and cause the Great Darkness to scream and create a floor for Uxas to land on. As Uxas start to get up, a male voice speak, "Well done, young prince. You give it pain." and Uxas look up to see a older version of himself whose said to him, "Don't be afraid, Uxas. I'm you from a future where you has won. You wanted the name so I has been surrounded to see it." Uxas offer a hand for his future self to help him up, but Darkseid said to his younger self, "Please Uxas, you should have know better. There is no rule for a great ruler of Apokolpis to show weakness. The Great Darkness is a being of stability, which nothing must changed, and it has been known as the Long Quiet, as well being a shadow of the Source. You must cast your heart to darkness if you want the name of Darkseid for yourself, Uxas." While a bit stuned, Uxas understood what his future self means and he said, "I will. There will be no people rising and no change to the nature order of Apokolpis expect its ruler."

The three allies become worried for Uxas when he come forever and Suli said to her love, "Uxas." and he said to her, "I'm fine, Suli, but that is no longer my name. It is now Darkseid, and I ask you, members of my council to understand that, for Darkseid is."

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Fourth World week day 7 free day

A Jack Kirby's Fourth World and Star Wars the Old Republic crossover fanfiction for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World week 2025 day 7 free day featuring my ocs.

Darth Occlus and her allies Git, Ciper Nine, and the bounty hunter Kish Sashi explore a temple strong with the Dark Side and the Twi'lek Sith find a wall of old text and she said to her allies, "This text mention that a group come to this temple long ago with a powerful prince with them. This prince of their want to be the greater evil there is to prove himself worth to rule their planet and this prince soon bring many Sith power to himself, making him basically a god." The bounty hunter ask Darth Occlus, "Who the heck is this prince that would do such a crazy thing?" and Darth Occlus reply, "That is one name on this text. The name is Darkseid."

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What should I do with him, father?

Summary: Orion seeks High-Father's council on how to love Lightray.

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: New Gods (Comics) DC Comics Relationships: Lightray/Orion (DCU) Orion & High Father Characters: Orion (DCU)High Father (DCU) Additional Tags: Love Confessions, Pining, Self Loathing, Canon - Comics, Dialogue-Only Collections: Fourth World Week 2025 Words: 749

Excerpt

“What should I do with him, father? His presence, it soothes me, as well as shames me. His light banishes darkness, but I fear it will not touch the shadowed chambers within me. ‘Gentle darkness’ is what he calls me, like the fall of shadows at twilight! Gentle! Me! He calls me gentle and it makes me believe that perhaps my hands may hold more than a weapon - that they may be used for mirth, and might hold his hand and touch his skin with as much assurance and comfort as they do a spear. But then the drums of battle pound with the beat of my heart and his gentle touch burns me and I recoil. I fear that if he and I met on the battlefield as enemies I would never turn from his touch, but would greet it with vision unclouded - even though he would wound me, even if I may fall at his strike. To die under his searing light would be a death I would accept and welcome with grace, and maybe it would finally cast away the shadows that infect me. But in this life he is my friend, he is the shining light of New Genesis who found comfort in me - a beast from Apokolips. There is no fight in which I would flee from, no weapon intimidating, no opponent which I would balk at meeting, but Lightray’s love, his touch - it frightens me, father. We stain each other, but in ways that taint only one. What should I do with him?”

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you may see me in the replies to many bad DC posts and think "stop getting in petty arguments with these guys". sorry you have to see that but i allow myself to pick one stupid fight a day and some days i choose to use it making batstans suffer through the most terrible social interaction of their entire year. they must all know that every time they post, they risk inviting me into their replies to give them a headache. i am a poisonous pest in my ecological niche making this place as inhospitable to an invasive species as i possibly can and i love every moment of it

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Not really following the @fourthworldweek theme today. Have a suxas art dumb instead

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Fourth World week 2025 day 6 lore

A Jack Kirby's Fourth World fanfiction for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World week 2025 day 6 lore.

Highfather explain to the kids the lore of their homeworld of New Genesis and their eternity enemy Apokolips, "Our two planets were once one until war between the old gods break them into two. While New Genesis is home of the good, Apokolips is home to evil such as Darkseid. When Darkseid minions attack New Genesis, we must forced them to realized that they couldn't defeat us and a peace pact was made. If that pact is broken, there will be a war that could destroy both worlds.

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Fourth World week 2025 day 6 fifth world

A Jack Kirby's Fourth World fanfiction for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World week 2025 day 6 Fifth World.

After the war between New Genesis and Apokoplis, the reborn New Gods find themselves on Earth 51, which their leader Scott Free said to his people, "This will be our new home, where we must cast away the desire to carry on past wars and rebuilt! The Fourth World is gone because of our infighting and we must work together for this Fifth World!" After hearing those words, no New Gods from both Apokolips and New Genesis chose to fight against Scott's leadership as he is a child of both world and they understood that they must built a new home for future generations.

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Fourth World Week

Day 6 - Lore

For today I present a look at where Metron is from! It's kind of a long one, but I explore the scarce few times he's talked about his origins (allegedly), and at the end I offer up a few of my own theories. Ive actually shared those theories here in the past over the course of the last two and a half years, but synthesizing all of this together into one big article feels right.

The short of it for those who dont want to go offsite, is that I believe Metron's words to Heggra in The Pact are only about allegiance. As far as canon he may or may not be from one of the two planets, it's not indicated. I also look at his Swamp Thing appearance where he says a brief line about his father, but we probably can't put much merit in that even if it's a fun idea.

I actually had this written up and ready to post last weekend. Ive been trying to stick to a weekly schedule for that blog, but hoo boy it's actually pretty hard even when I've already done a draft here on tumblr. Anyway, I looked at the FWW schedule and realized this would fit perfectly for Lore, so I bumped it to today, and rewrote my Impel Card exploration for last weekend instead. Thats also on my blog, along with a few others if youre interested!

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DAY 5-LOVE/HATE

@fourthworldweek fan event

(I realise I tend to draw a lot of people sleeping 😅)

You know you’re at your safest when you can fall asleep around someone you love!

I LOVE THIS PIECE SO MUCH!

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Orion for @fourthworldweek Day 5: Hate

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Fourth World week 2025 day 5 hate

A Jack Kirby's New Gods for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World Week 2025 day 5 hate.

Kalibak the Cruel, son of Darkseid, hate his half brother Orion for being a enemy of their father as well looking more human than he does. People would call Kalibak ugly due to his looks and he would hate them for pointing that out.

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Fourth World Week 2025 day 5 love

A Jack Kirby's Fourth World fanfiction for @fourthworldweek event Fourth World week 2025 day 5 love.

Scott Free love his wife Big Barba for her beauty and strength, as well having free will to fight back against Darkseid control just like he does.

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Fourth World Week

Day 5 - Love

Based on this interaction from New Gods (1971) #1, this one really could've been for the Masks prompt or even the Friends & Family prompt. But at its heart, its very much a love song. It's written from Orion's perspective, something he could not say or put into words to Lightray, just as the darker parts of his heart cannot yet be shown. But he longs to! He wants deeply to let in this person - the one who lights those dark chambers.

I originally wrote the lyrics some time ago, but only put it to music in the last several days especially for FWW! Please give it a listen, it's not very long.

Ohh Ohh Oh There are places you can't go The darkness is red Inside my heart I prefer your light instead But I fear the start Will spell the end Don't tell me, don't tell me What do you think of me The brutish strength I wield Deep in my soul Is that what's really real And could you know Exactly how I feel The self control, the face I show The mask you see But oh if you stay with me You might find the man that I try to be And oh if you could only know You light the places that you can't go

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