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Hi,

I found your MerAU, and I love it, it's a really unique idea, and your writing is faboulus too!

If you don't mind me asking, do you have an idea of when you are going to update it?

[in the tone of that one vine] heyyyyy

firstly, thank you for the compliment!!!! im glad you're enjoying it!!!! im sorry for leaving this unanswered for like two weeks!!!!!

secondly......I'm going to be so honest to you, I got really sick (like feverish and delirious), and then hyperfixated on a group of problematic content creators, and then proceeded to write omegaverse fanfic of them....This is why adhd is considered a mental illness (/j) guys stay safe out there.

Also my brother and my cat both needed surgery so I had to lock in and pay for that. They're both fine everyone cheered. The ao3 author curse is finally catching me.....

Back to working on capture and release!!!! Chapter 4 has like 1.5k words so far but i genuinely think it's going to go on forever. I might take a week or so to get out, but im also leaving the country tomorrow so idk if ill have time.

I APOLOGISE TO ANYONE WAITING JSBNOJAHBNGJKWHNO

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Spoilers for Green Lantern #24 but as a huge Aya and GL: TAS fan y'all have no idea how happy I am rn.

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So I was rambling in the discord server a while back about this but if the base concept of the DemiHero!AU is that this is basically a Percy Jackson AU where instead of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades etc. the Olympic pantheon is made up of DC superheroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, how does it make sense for those champions of justice and defenders of the innocent to be bad parents and irresponsible gods?

Before I can explain my answer, a quick tangent. There's a concept from PJO fanon (at least this is where I first heard of it) where the gods in the modern day are different from the original myths because they draw power from human ideas and thus change along with humanity's perception of them and their domains. Like Poseidon used to be a cruel and unpredictable sea god, but Percy's Dad is way more chill because centuries of exploration and advances in maritime technology have made the ocean much less terrifying than it was for the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

So the idea I have is this: in the DemiHero!AU, all the "gods" were originally just DC's superheroes, but all their iconic origins and adventures took place during Ancient Greek times. So like Kal-El arriving as a baby or the Waynes getting murdered, just imagine those events but everyone's wearing togas and chitons. Superman grew up on an olive farm, Batman was the tragically orphaned son of wealthy citizens in some gloomy city-state, and Wonder Woman... is still Hippolyta's clay baby no changes needed there lmaooo

Anyways, despite this change in setting, the heroes of the Justice League are pretty much the exact same people they are in canon- heroic, kind, good people. But as centuries pass and the original details become blurred into myths and legends, they become gods that are different from the people they used to be. It's further compounded by storytellers who change the stories to suit their needs (like Ovid with The Metamorphoses), and as those versions become solidified alongside the older myths, the gods drift further and further from who they once were.

For example, the original Batman was just a mortal warrior who was skilled and cunning enough to stand as an equal amongst more superpowered heroes. His strength came from his meticulous preparation before battles and careful strategies, and while he occasionally clashed with his fellow heroes and even made plans and weapons to defeat them if necessary, he was always a staunch ally to those who protect the innocent.

But gods of ancient pantheons are not known for their kindness toward mortals, and without this trait, Batman the god is a different being entirely. The ancients interpret his affinity for shadows and secrecy as a tendency toward darkness and deceit, so these become his primary domains. His contingency plans and hidden underground lair became indicators that he is a paranoid outcast who views the other gods as foolish, while they in turn view him as an untrustworthy schemer. The various proteges he trains as heroes become his many children who inherit his dark reputation and disdain for the rest of the pantheon.

In this AU, the gods are often horribly out of character when compared to the heroes they were based on. But that's the point. They're literal caricatures of themselves, because core aspects of who they are have been buried beneath millennia of myth. This is the justification for how they've become the godly pantheon whose drama causes problems for everyone else, much like how the Olympians are in Percy Jackson

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Manifesting mentor/big brother Hal for MAWGL

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You’d think that Lantern Corps would be more popular on Tumblr with all the colour theory, but yet…

FR!! I love color coded groups it's so fun

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SORRY I DEVIATED FROM THE CONCEPT. have a “what is this feeling in my chest” comic

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okay idk if this is a genius idea or I haven’t slept in way too long but my next socmed dc fic could be dick grayson/jackson wang HEAR ME OUT—-

Jackson is doing so many random ass collabs rn like w pokimane and kole404 (I’m loving the kole x jackson edits lmfaooo) so like….idk how it would even happen like maybe this is a world where the Wayne’s are all kinda internet viral constantly and it starts w a TikTok or something and then it spirals…

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I want there to be a green lantern/Flash animated movie, but I want it to have both Barry+Hal AND Wally+Kyle so it has halbarry getting shit done while joking around because they've been friends for ages and then it cuts to the other party and it's just

Wally: God, you are the most obnoxious person I've ever met

Kyle: I am literally just standing here. The fuck did I do?

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Please, tell me your one-sentence long unpopular opinion about DC comics's heroes, with no explanation

Mine is: Green Lanterns should be overpowered and able to take down the entire Justice League

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My biggest gripe with green lanterns is that none of these people should want to be cops yet every one of them is entirely uncritical over the fact that they’re cops.

The solution (in my eyes) is to stop modeling the glc like a police force and to start modeling them like a volunteer fire department dealing with metaphorical fires (sometimes literal)* that work with local officials to ensure peace and safety and only push past that in times of necessity (and they’re also able to root out corruption since nothing is ever really that nice — but not in a ‘completely overhaul the government’ way but in a ‘support the local people and movements to allow for change’ way which still won’t magically fix shit but c’mon. These people are still in an intergalactic peace keeping force, they can’t just abuse their power like that. Side note though, god damn GLs could be used to examine so much shit in a really interesting way but nooo we have to dick ride cops….)

I don’t really mean this in a retcon way. There is a ton of potential for exploring the ethics and actual effectiveness of GLs as cops (and can allow for really good personal story lines). I just want shit to happen and to be talked about instead of people being completely passive to something they should not be passive about.

Oh and this helps the gripe bc now the GLs are just a group of people doing extreme volunteer work to help people (which is kinda like what every superhero is if you simplify it down). All of them would have a much easier time living with that I think.

*I know there’s a better term than “volunteer fire department that deals with metaphorical fires” but I can think of it right now. Whatever. “Volunteer organization focused on helping people get through shit and recover.” It’s on the tip of my fucking tongue and it’s killing me. I’m too tired to think. Someone who knows sound off. I’m actually a little pissed at myself for this.

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a hug in heaven

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capture and release

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65299285

3/7 chapters, 10,177 words, late addition to mermay 2025!

Dick never thought it was important to mention he was born an Atlantean. His first memories were in a tank at Haley’s circus, he was so young when he was cursed human that’s he’s spent more time with legs than without. It’s not like he was ever a real mer anyway…

OR

Dick is exposed as a merman/atlantean, gets a tour of Atlantis, and has to decide whether he’d like to face the culture and people he was stolen from, or ignore it all and return to his family on land.

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Hey. Hey. Stop whining about the green lantern corps being “cops”. They aren’t Earth police. Calling them “space cops” is just a cheeky over simplification that is not meant to be an accurate or all encompassing description of the actual organization. Your handwringing over it is nonsensical and absurd considering the entire superhero genre is founded on the concept of fighting crime. Every other superhero is just as much a super cop as the Green Lanterns. Hell, most of them are more like cops than the GLs.

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!!!!! The first chapter of my mer!dick fic will be going up when the ao3 clocks change on the 30th (in 13hrs)!! I’m super late for mermay but oh well, as long as it gets out there :3.

Here’s a little peak:

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It’s been too long since I’ve been able to make a video :)

Anyways, It’s Hal missing Barry hours :) He will always be there for Wally but sometimes it’s hard

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