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Neapolitan ice cream and a rewatch of Under the Red Hood tonight because it's somebody's birthday.

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A preview of the Grant fic as I work on editing:

[redacted because I accidentally summoned someone creepy and don't know why but would rather not have to deal with more of this--stay tuned for the actual full thing eventually]

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The main character of the last TV show you watched is now your therapist. How’s it working for you?

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Tiny and messy splendid fairywren

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Hugs <3 Send this to the first ten people on your dash, okay? (if you'd like)

We're giving hugs!

Thank you so much!

People of the dash, consider this your hug and/or other expression of affection as appropriate! <3

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Lil' Lobo/Slo-bo: Heavy Czarnian accent. What that sounds like is anyone's guess.

Ray: He's from Philadelphia but grew up isolated from most of his peers and getting much of his understanding of the world from TV, so influences from the more generic accents you tend to hear on TV have probably diluted his Philadelphian accent to some extent. But it should still be noticeable, particularly with certain words. I want the rest of YJ to give him grief about pronouncing "water" as "wooder" or introducing himself as "the Rye." I want him to angrily call Kon or Triumph a jabroni during an argument and they're like "...what?"

Grant: Georgian accent because he's from Atlanta? Nope. He only lived there for...maybe a month at most? He grew up moving a lot, so it's likely that his accent's from everywhere and nowhere. We know he lived in Dayton, Ohio before moving to Marietta, but we don't know anywhere else that he's lived. But he does have some kind of accent occasionally because of his inconsistent use of "wuhl" for the interjection "well." This might suggest some Midwestern influence on how he speaks? My best guess for him is a General American accent, with some Midland elements.

I've been recording Robin's Strange Redemption lately, and that got me thinking about accents (not that I've been doing any most of the time). Given what we know of the YJ kids and their backgrounds, what should they sound like?

Tim: He's from New Jersey, but he's been educated in ritzy boarding schools, which in North America tend to be primarily in the Northeast. So it's likely that Tim sounds like an upper-class Easterner (much like Bruce probably does). He possibly downplays it a bit as Robin to make himself less identifiable.

Kon: Cadmus would have created him with the intention of his sounding exactly like the original Superman. Clark very likely has a natural Midwestern accent, but I doubt he'd use it as Superman. So let's say a Metropolis accent. Exactly where Metropolis is is ambiguous though. Delaware? New York? Nevertheless, Kon's dialogue is written as sounding different from Superman's. He g-drops a lot and uses "y'know," "shoulda," "gonna," etc. This seems to be more slang than any specific accent; he's been influenced by all the pop culture that got implanted into his memories, which might mean there are some Californian influences in how he talks. So my best guess for him would be a heavily slangified version of a Metropolis accent (somewhere back East), with some influences from Californian English and from Hawaiian pidgin that creep in during his time there.

Bart: His first language is Interlac, and who even knows what sounds like. But he's able to pick up on and imitate other languages and accents very quickly, so he switches to English with no apparent problems once he's in the twentieth century. He learned English from Iris (I'm not sure where she grew up), but he goes to school and makes friends in Alabama, and his dialogue in Impulse frequently suggests that he has picked up a Southern accent. It's less pronounced when he's with his YJ friends but more prominent when he's at home or school.

Cassie: She and her mother live in Gateway City when they're introduced, and there's no evidence that she has lived anywhere else prior to that. Gateway City is in California and is based on San Francisco, so Cassie probably has a Californian accent (not Valley Girl, this is one of those American accents that sound generic enough not to be immediately recognizable as regional).

Cissie: I can't find a definite answer for where she has grown up. Her parents met in Star City, where her father was likely from. Bonnie might be from that area too. So I'm going to assume for purposes of argument that they continued to live there after their daughter was born. The location of Star City is, like Metropolis, not clear, but as far as I can tell, it was in California at the time that Cissie was introduced. So she probably has a Californian accent, perhaps with some influences from her boarding school in Pennsylvania later on.

Greta: As far as I can tell, she is probably from somewhere around Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, judging from how her brother seems to be operating there. So she probably has at least a bit of a Rhode Island accent, which is something like a cross between Boston and New York accents (which means she might refer to some of her teammates as "Bawt" and "Supahboy").

Anita: She grew up in the New Orleans area but was raised by a Haitian grandmother. So her accent probably has influences from both locations. Although her dialogue frequently includes "mon," which is characteristic of Jamaican patois and doesn't make sense with the origin that's established for her. I'm going to assume that this was an error on the part of the writer(s).

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reblog to tell your mutual you’re proud of them and it’ll all work out

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There are no fun facts about me. I am the world's most boring human. Why do people always want to know "fun" "facts"?

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I have a complete (mostly, with only one little gap left to fill in) draft for the Grant fic! Currently it's around 9200 words. And now I can fully enter the editing stage, which is the better, more doable part of writing. Just in time for what we're hoping will be a revival of writing group. (...this is going to be interesting to explain to them.)

HUGE relief. You may be seeing this story soon.

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Clapping. Out loud. Right here in the office. Presumably at some video he was watching.

I have no idea what this was supposed to accomplish or whose benefit this applause was for. But I think it's going to be another headphones-in day.

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Jules Verne writing a boast battle/insult exchange between Texas and Florida (and totally nailing how that might go down) is something that I didn't know I needed.

(I went into From the Earth to the Moon expecting an adventure story. It is in fact a satire, so far, which is entertaining.)

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Young Justice (1998) #36

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That whole thing was a huge sprawling ongoing story that crossed over a lot of titles for a long time, and I've hardly read a fraction of it, but I think the particular part you're looking for is called Batman: Reborn, and you can find a list of the revelant issues at the DC Wiki.

can someone give me a reading list/order for the "Bruce is dead/lost in time and everybody else loses their shit in various ways" arc because I know Red Robin is part of that but I have a fic I've been thinking about for literally around 3 years at this point and the only reason I haven't written it is because I haven't read any of those comics.

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🫵 YOU. STOP WHERE YOU ARE

say something nice about prev!!! find something cool about them!! give their blog a skim!!

compliments are FREE TO GIVE so GIVE THEM OUT. pls. thamnk. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

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In Book 2, Elystan will discover that his personal doctor has a son about his age, who is in a sanitarium (implied to be consumptive). This is quite a surprise, and Elystan wants to do something to help, but initially isn't sure what.

He ends up writing a letter to Raybert Gillisall, and they do correspond briefly until the letters abruptly stop at some point during Elystan's post-Book 2 breakdown era.

For fun, here's Elystan's initial letter.

Dear Raybert,

Can you believe that your father has been my personal physician for more than ten years and has never once mentioned to me that he has a son about my age? At least, I don’t remember him ever saying so. I don’t know why, because I would have wanted to meet you a long time ago.

You probably already know who I am, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Perhaps your father hasn’t told you much. My name is Elystan, Prince of Arclis. The king is my father half-brother. I will be twelve on the thirty-first of October. Sometimes I stay at Rhosemore in Loriston, which is my favorite place to be, but most of the time I live at Endean House in the country. You know how it is when they won’t let live where you want because it “isn’t good for you” or whatever ridiculous excuse they make. I used to live with my nurse, but not any more because I’m too old for that, and I have a tutor. His name is Mr. Faulkley and he doesn’t know what to do with me, so I mostly do what I want. It is the life, Raybert, I can tell you.

Do they make you do lessons too? What do you do where you live? No one will let me go there, but I want to know what it’s like. Do you read a lot? I hope so, or we’re going to have nothing to talk about when we become friends. Do you read the Morrick Hopeley stories? They’re my favorites. I’ve read them more times than I can count. Would you believe that Mr. L. D. Melbray’s wife used to be my nurse? Their daughter is my best friend. I’m almost certain that Mr. Melbray will dedicate his next book to me; I’m practically their family’s greatest patron. I also like Pirate Island and The Book of Dreadful Dragons and lots of other books, mostly adventures and mysteries and stories of magic. There’s a long list. If there’s something you want to read that you don’t have, I can have it sent to you.

Do you like to play board games? I like chess because I’m much better at it than my brother is. I read somewhere once about somebody famous playing chess by correspondence with a friend. Perhaps we could do that. But I’ll warn you now that I am very good at it and it will be a challenge. Perhaps you’re pretty clever at it yourself, and then we can make it more interesting by changing the rules. Sometimes the usual way of playing gets dull.

I hope you’ll write back to me. I’ve never had a friend who lives in a place like you do before, and I want to know all about you and how you pass the time. It gets tiresome, I know, when they won’t let you do anything exciting or go anywhere, but getting letters always makes things a little better. Let’s make things better as often as we can.

Yours sincerely,

Elystan

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it makes no darn sense for Bart to be part of S mall ville's version of the JLA

he's there to be Discount Barry, I get it, but still. these are not your beautiful friends, kid.

however. I do appreciate that they didn't try to Barrify him in most ways. he's not a nerdy, meticulous, perpetually late scientist.

there were times when he was recognizably, specifically Bart in his personality and mannerisms. they even let him be Impulse (probably because they couldn't use the Flash name).

I wish they had kept his original backstory or something close to it (establish that he's from the future, maybe have Lex rather than his evil grandfather be the one experimenting on him in childhood, I don't know) but for some reason every adaptation ever is allergic to it.

why are you flirting with Chloe, kid. did you get possessed by Kon for a moment. that's not a very Bart thing to do.

when Lex sarcastically addressed him as "Sunshine" I was like "don't you dare, that's what his mom calls him!"

(I doubt the writers were intentionally making a reference but it meant something to me at least)

despite it all, a more plausible Bart than the interpretation on that other C W show.

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Why yes, S mall ville, the Justice League was in fact founded by an obnoxious blond man.

Just...not that one.