#Jason continuum

[berrymimes]

some oc x canon commissions! 💘

(for infernojax, yuniichu, mr.viwick, and the_doodling_snail on insta!)

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Jason Scheier also wrote about the production problems on Andromeda, which also point to some pretty gnarly problems within BioWare itself.

Pre-production on Mass Effect: Andromeda was a tale of two cities. Several people from the team described 2013 as one of the best years of their professional lives and 2014 as one of the worst. Whereas 2013 was full of possibilities for the developers of Andromeda, 2014 was full of politics. Conflicts emerged between BioWare staffers at the company’s two main studios, in Edmonton and Montreal. Developers in Edmonton said they thought the game was floundering in pre-production and didn’t have a strong enough vision, while developers in Montreal thought that Edmonton was trying to sabotage them, taking ideas and staff from Montreal for its own projects, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dylan. By the end of 2014 at least a dozen people had left BioWare Montreal for other studios, and it wasn’t clear to the remaining staff whether those positions would be replaced. The animation team in particular was understaffed, sources said, and when people left, their positions sometimes weren’t refilled.

I haven't played Veilguard, so I have no thoughts to offer on it, but based on everything I've been reading over the years the current state of BioWare is sad but not surprising, and EA isn't the only one to blame.

Now that Veilguard is out, this feels like he was trying to warn us.

[earth-1218designate]

*Smashing your parents killer's daughter is some cold work only Batman is capable of.

*One of my biggest inspirations for my life as a scribe.

[glitter-stained]

Look, I'll say it: Zurr isn't a magical demon that took over Bruce's body, it's a vilifying, demonizing take on induced DID. I can't keep seeing people fight to defend Bruce's honour in Gotham War by saying "it wasn't actually him so it's not his fault", reject the Lazarus Pit Madness headcanon because "Jason and he alone did his crimes and he has no excuse", and then we're talking about how Bruce's or Dick's trauma is what made him a hero, one post later on my board it's "the lazarus pit madness headcanon is unnecessary because Jason's behaviour is completely explainable and logical if you just take in account that he has cptsd" (or bpd depending on the post) and then that fanfic I had to stop reading because a character literally was screaming at Jason "so what you died get over yourself but you weren't magically controlled by the pit so you have zero excuse and justification for being angry" and then a post about "wow why is Batman punching down on all these mentally ill people", and then in the replies "are you dumb it's because those crazies are bombing orphanages..."

I'm still thinking about that moment in "dumpster slasher" where Batman is like "the killer is still free while poor Elmore [a homeless guy with substance use disorder and major neurocognitive disorder] is being shipped off to Arkham... This doesn't sit right" yeah buddy I'm sure if you ponder that for a while, the reason why the fact the only mental health facility in your city is also a prison for dangerous criminals with no apparent mental illness doesn't sit right with you will appear to you eventually.

Maybe it's time to confront the fact that the difference between a hero and villain in dc is often whether their mental illness is demonized, glorified or minimized. Or the fact that attenuated circumstances and responsibility exists on a gradient and there is such thing as "altered responsibility due to mental illness" in a trial. Maybe it's not "oh it was this evil Zurr/Batman entity, not Bruce/Batman, so there is no responsibility to be taken and anyone condemning those actions as abuse is talking in bad faith" maybe it's "this is a terrible representation of something that exists and should be treated respectfully" and "I don't have to accept this terribly harmful rethoric and fucked up depiction into my conception of my fav's characterization in such a dislocated, often incoherent canon if I don't want to."

And also maybe it's "if we accept this event/depiction as canon it doesn't mean that we have to either bash the character completely or erase his mental illness into something vaguer/mystical that would somehow absolve him of his place in this situation".

And maybe it's "what does accountability for your harmful actions looks like when your judgement was heavily impaired by mental illness, and what judgement can be placed upon you and who decides where people are placed on that continuum of responsibility and how do we acknowledge and go forward into repairing things when severe harm/abuse was done under impaired judgement and also how do you reconcile all of this with your sense of self, (especially in conditions like bpd/cptsd and especially did where the sense of self is already so altered/complicated) with what your values are, what you want to be, what you are capable of doing and what you thought about yourself before the bad thing happened." I don't know any simple, correct, good answer, especially not a one size fits all. All I know is: the desire to be a good person, and be able to distinctively separate people between bad and good, is profoundly human and, at times when lines of responsibility get blurry, profoundly unhelpful. Most people who are going to hurt you aren't mentally ill. Most people who do terrible things aren't mentally ill, and sometimes people are mentally ill and hurt people and the two have nothing to do with eachother. But it is also a reality that sometimes judgement is impaired and behaviour is altered due to mental illness, and then you need to figure out where to go from there. Acknowledging this while also fighting stigmatisation is a complicated business. It's messy. Mental illness often is. I'm weary of any rethoric that pretends it's simple.

[lionwitch]

after my Tim Edits Reality post, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Frankie (the dog) and though he remembers just editing her into his life, what he edits is more like the space-time continuum, so his parents remember getting her for him. And I haven't been able to stop thinking of like

Little kid Tim, trying to get his parents to stay longer: mom, I'm so lonely...!

Janet: oh sweetheart, I know. But we have work, you know that.

Tim: but I'm all alone in this big house... It's so lonely and scary...

Janet: you're right, Tim. I'm sorry about that, sweetheart. I'll see what I can do.

Tim thinks his mom is going to try and stay. That same night she arrives with a Border Collie puppy.

Janet: look, Tim. So you won't be so lonely while your father and I are away. You can train her, and you can play together. Just make sure you take care of you both and clean after her, ok?

Tim, torn between sad his mom isn't staying and happy he now has a puppy: ok, mama. Thank you.

Now I love Frankie, and I love giving the batfam an animal companion. So far, through my fics, it's as follows:

Lettuce the Crow for Jason (not yet written, but will be appearing soon) in "Tim's a weirdo, but he's our weird— Jason, what do you mean you have a child!?" (my Dragon!Tim and dad!Jay fic)

Promise the Kitten for Dick in Shadows of New Beginnings (my dad!Dick fic)

And I will be adding Frankie to my Howling at the River fic (secretly married musician!Tim)

Plus of course Alfred and Titus play a big role for Damian in Of Beliefs and Devotion (part of my dragon Tim au, but focused on witch worshipping Damian/magic Damian)

When I write my magic user Janet au, you best believe she'll have a familiar too, maybe an owl or even a small magical creature

that's it, thank you, I was ranting. It's 6am and I didn't sleep to write Howling at the River

Happy to provide links if you want, after I've slept

[its-ares]

— Heartaches Continuum

Part II of Unrequited love is the worst, Male Reader

@nouearth @kawaiishipperforlife @screechingmoonfox

Jason lay in his bed and stared at the ceiling. Two hours ago your coffin was lowered and again Jason couldn't stop crying. He hadn't done anything but cry for two weeks anyway, sometimes he screamed at night when he woke up from his nightmare. He screamed, always for M/N. He sobbed and pulled at his hair until Dick carefully removed his hands from his head.

The others tried to be there for him, but their family was divided. Dick, Kory, Dawn and Bruce tried to comfort him. Rachel, Gar and Hank let Jason feel how disappointed they were in him for what he had done to M/N. Rachel lost a very good friend, M/N was always there for her and cheered her up. Gar lost his gaming buddy, together you played some game for hours. Hank missed M/N because of his quiet nature, the boy had listened to him when he told how he felt about Dawn and M/N helped him get back together with her.

The others didn't want to understand how much he missed him. Jason knew what a mistake he had made - and now he had to live with the consequences.

It was late, almost night, when Jason carefully sat down on his bed. Photos of the two of you were scattered around, you were happy.

"I'm so, so sorry M/N. I was an asshole and now you're just gone. How am I supposed to live without you?" Jason wiped away his tears when he caught a whiff. He looked up and saw you. You were sitting on his desk chair and looking at him attentively. Jason looked at you in shock, sure that he was finally losing his mind.

"Hey Jay," says M/N and smiles sadly. M/N slowly walked towards Jason and sat down on the bed. He put his hand on his former friend's cheek and stroked it gently. "Don't cry, Jay," M/N whispered.

"I don't understand, you- you're not real. I saw them lower your coffin into the ground. You're not here, you'll never be here again," Jason cried, shaking his head.

"You don't have to understand Jay, I'm here to tell you that I forgive you. I love you so much and believe me, it hurts that I can't be with you anymore, but despite everything, I'm still here," said M/N and put his hand on Jason's chest. „I‘m always going to be here“.

M/N leaned forward and kissed Jason gently. When he opened his eyes, M/N was gone. Jason smiled sadly and touched his lip. The pain in his chest was still there, but not as oppressive as before. He touched his chest and felt a warmth. "I love you too, M/N," Jason whispered.

We‘ll meet again soon, M/N.

[sourkreem]

pls i beg that someone bring jason todd to reality. open a portal to his dimension, rupture the space and time continuum just for me to land on his juicy hooters and suffocate me with his bazooka badonkers

[doolallymagpie]

well, shit, now I've got my own unhinged "BattleTech Continuum" setting, where Blake died in the Amaris Civil War, DeChavilier somehow talked Kerensky into a coup after the High Council appointed a guy who openly hated his guts as the Minister of Communications, Nicholas Kerensky went full Caligula (after staging his own coup against Aleksandr's successor), and for about a decade while Jason Kharrige made Amos "Baby-Eater" Furlough look like a nice guy, the Capellan Confederation, the Federated Suns, and the Taurian Concordat were in an alliance, which was followed by everyone banding together against Kerenksy's utterly fucked Terran Hegemony...only to start the Succession Wars anyway after they killed the bastard, though it was more of a "cold war slowly heating up" thing here as the Star League slowly broke apart

so, basically, 3025, but no ComStar and the Clan Invasion basically already happened

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

WIP Wednesday I'm Bored Day :D

I am bouncing around a lotta different places right now while I move countries and visit friends and family I might not see again. Which means I do not have consistent access to my WIPs. Yet the need to write still consumes me.

So yeah I'm writing scenes for Chained: To Wield the Blade We Have Forged here now, so like possibly spoilers but also possibly not spoilers cause I may end up changing or cutting any number of these puppies!

Just two little scene snippets for now, and I'll add new ones as mood strikes me in reblogs

"Why are you twenty-five? I mean, if you don't mind me asking?"

Jason watches the onions slowly brown in the pan, and asks flatly, "You mean why didn't I kill myself before getting here or why did I come back the first time?"

He knows what Tim means by it. The deflection is mostly a reflex and partially a test, a little push to see how Tim handles it.

"I meant why do you count it like that. Like one continuum, without the pause," His voice is just as soft and accepting as when he voiced the first question.

"Because I didn't stop being a person. I didn't stop existing. Not really. Death is movement to a new place and a new state, but I was still a person then. When I was comatose, I was still a person," When he was wandering around too brain damaged to speak he was still a person, and he remembers being treated as a non-person then too vividly to say it out loud, "Maybe I lost growth, but I didn't lose personhood, and I count my age by how long I've existed."

NEW SCENE

Tim approaches Jason gingerly, frankly terrified of this going wrong, "Hey..."

Jason takes in his body language with increasingly overt suspicion, "...Hi."

"So, I know I don't have any right to ask this but I feel like, given the circumstances, I kind of have to. Do you remember the afterlife?"

His face goes carefully neutral, calculating. After a minute he turns away and says, "Wind. I remember wind rushing against my face, the sound of fabric snapping through the air, falling - not flying - and being very, very happy. That's it."

"That-" Tim cuts himself off from saying 'That sounds like' and pivots to, "You're certain that's not a memory from life?"

"Yes. As certain as anyone could possibly be."

"Do you know where you were?"

"Heaven. But I couldn't tell you which, even if I wanted to."

It knocks the wind out of him for reasons he can't quite grasp. Tim reaches out and squeezes his forearm, just for a moment, "Thank you. Sorry for asking."

Jason squeezes his wrist back just as briefly, "I get why you had to. Apology accepted."

[dustedmagazine]

John Scofield — Uncle John’s Band (ECM)

It seems like all guitarists of a certain generation or inclination eventually spend some time on ECM’s roster. Recently, John Scofield has joined his peers Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, and John Abercrombie as a stalwart of the label. Scofield is also something of an odd choice, given that he’s always played with an earthy, sometimes bluesy sensibility that one doesn’t often associate with the label. But that’s all just first impressions. What we’ve got here, on about 90 minutes of music, is a cracking trio (including longtime running mate, drummer Bill Stewart, and bassist Vicente Archer) playing a range of selections from Americana to originals to standards.

When “Mr. Tambourine Man” starts things out with a somewhat innocuous loop and some textural noodling, I was wondering if someone had slipped me a 1990s Frisell recording. But it settles quickly into tasty stuff that initially seems merely inoffensive, then slowly gets more exploratory. That continuum fairly well defines much the music here: cracking grooves, melodic flights, but also dark explorations and harmonic variety. It doesn’t reinvent any wheels but it’s a pretty damn pleasant Scofield trio date.

The brisk, nimble swing of “How Deep” or “TV Band” is very much in Scofield’s wheelhouse, a craggy melody alternating with deft chordal work riding on a stripped-down groove. These tunes, along with “The Girlfriend Cord” and “Mask,” could stand with any of his finest performances. The trio also turn in some find balladry (“Stairway to the Stars”) and some crunchy funk (“Mo Green”). But for me, it’s the date’s changeups that yield more memorable results, both winning and sometimes less so. The spaghetti-western vibe of “Back in Time” is a heap of fun, and the trio once again excels in making abstractions from basic melodic material. Ditto for the slightly country-fied “Somewhere.” But on the other hand, Neil Young’s “Old Man” fell almost completely flat to these ears.

Still, a couple of misfires can’t mar another fine entry from Sco.

Jason Bivins

[setokaibapetty]

5 + 1 Fic Friday Roundup: Soulmates

Don't worry this isn't promoting any OTP as the only correct way. Rather have some fics set in universes where soulmates are recognizable (via mechanisms such being born with their name on your skin or sharing dreams or etc).

Summoning Soulmates (AO3) - "On the 18th birthday of the younger soulmate, you switch bodies. Normally it’s nothing too special. Usually something mundane, like grocery shopping or working a part time job. But with Jason and Danny, it’s anything but. Now Danny is scrambling to get his very human soulmate out of harms way in the Infinite Realms."

Continuum (AO3) - "Naruto being Naruto, drew up a wonky time-travel seal and sent Obito into a completely different dimension where people actually have soulmates. Wtf. Furthermore, although Obito should have been an anomaly, why was Senju Tobirama's name inked(?) just below his left collarbone?!"

every possible mistake (AO3) - "Hawks has never wanted a soulmate; Himiko has never wanted anything more. Dabi threw his soulmate away for revenge, and Denki just hopes no one finds out he doesn't have one."

if broken hearts were whole (AO3) - "At first Alec thought he didn’t have a soulmark. Not everyone did. Sometimes they disappeared, or changed, and sometimes they showed up later in life, signifying some twist of fate passed, some important choice resolved that you hadn’t even realized you’d made. But Alec doubted he’d be one of those, didn’t think he’d ever be able to want someone, be wanted back."

Cursed be this Soul (that Ties Us Together) (AO3 / FF) - "Across universes, Hermione meets her soulmate through time and space; the ties that bind them together could be the very thing they need or it could destroy them both. 20 years later, they reunite - but when you play the game of thrones, add magic and a young metamorphmagus, things are never as they seem in Westeros."

Bonus: Firstone (AO3) - "Even in a world designed for perfect matches, love was unfair."

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just finished the house of hades and I liked it a whole lot. idk why I didn't expect to but I was so awed by the mark of athena that I think I was worried about how it was going to measure up, especially because I struggled so much with the first two in the heroes of olympus series. I thought the balance was really nice—I had a hard time with the first two because I knew how interesting the dynamic was going to be when we were eventually got all 7, which obviously slayed as they all hammered out their differences in the mark of athena. it is a fun narrative device to be able to just invent a quest that requires a specific few of your characters and send them out to have whatever relationship development you need with each other, and then have them assimilate that back into the group when they return; it was really sick to see them form a cohesive group like this by the end of the book. and then, when you take the core of the group away, the most experienced characters—a classic in this whole franchise thus far, moving the pieces around in fun new configurations—you get to watch it happen again.

in the house of hades, the little destination quests that move the main group away from and then back to the ship are also balanced out by a new and completely different setting: tartarus, where you get to see your two favorite characters, the most developed by far, experience new horrors even further beyond comprehension than they usually run into. their experience pushes the few boundaries that have even been set around the magic in this world, and it's mirrored upstairs in the ship, where hazel, then frank, then piper reach new heights in their respective abilities. this is that balance that struck me most about the book—the way percy and annabeth's journey mirrors the one above them. so much of the mark of athena was dominated by annabeth's themes and percy's daunting presence, and now they, in turn, follow everyone else's themes that are finally being properly developed now that we know enough about the new characters and their dynamics to really get into it.

jason, nico, and leo are one of my favorite things about the whole book—they share the last theme to crop up, one about home, and finding yours by listening to yourself. jason and nico travel the most obvious opposite paths in that sense, and it's interesting to watch them clash about it, but it's even more captivating to me to see how their relationship develops and most of all seems to bring about respect for one another, despite being headed in literal complete opposite directions on the thematic continuum. while we know percy hopes to settle down in new rome with annabeth once this is all done, trading the freedom that's brought him so much suffering for safety and security, jason realizes that he feels more at home at camp half-blood, where he is free of crushing rules and responsibility, than he ever did at camp jupiter. in fact, he decisively lets go of everything the romans put on him and decides for sure over the course of the house of hades that that's where he wants to go. nico is moving the other direction—the more he goes through, the more tired he gets of all of this, and the more he wants to disappear. we don't get his narration in this book so we only see him through everyone else's eyes, but the way house of hades develops his relationship with jason and to percy sets him up really well to narrate in the blood of olympus.

leo is, as always, in a league of his own—he is one of my favorites, and he finally gets some time alone in the spotlight in book 4. percy is just about as relevant to leo's story here as he is to jason's, and while the duality he has with jason isn't present, that's really the point. basically everyone catches an inferiority complex when you put them up next to percy jackson, and since leo already had that covered previously with his whole ass life and with jason, it's hit him extra hard. when he becomes attached to someone who breaks the usual system that he operates within—and whose system he breaks in return—he gains new perspective: if he had been a regular heroey hero like percy jackson or jason grace, this would've gone the same for calypso as it always does, but he is not. he is the mistake that breaks her cycle, a cycle that he realizes percy jackson has contributed to in the past. this new purpose, untethered from the group that makes him feel so out of place, and discarded by "real" heroes throughout history, helps him move past his doubt. in turn, percy jackson is in hell grappling with his own shortcomings. being a powerful hero doesn't safeguard you from passive cruelty; in fact, it makes it very easy to stumble into. he encounters the arai, who curse annabeth with calypso's bitter wish, and remembers he hasn't checked on the status of his promise to free her at all. he is guided through the pit by bob, whose memory he erased, and whom he then left to hades' care and never looked back. this tension and the moral quandary that evolves out of it is a main point on his and annabeth's journey. while leo is inspired to succeed where percy carelessly abandoned ship, percy realizes for the first time how many ships he's abandoned. I can't remember if it's quite lined up in the timeline, but it struck me as a fun way to flip some more stuff on its head.

[cynsualc829]

🎬MOSI

Watch movie: https://tv.autodailyz.com/14659/

MOSI: The First Black Panther Is About To Blow Your Mind

In the upcoming series "Eyes of Wakanda," the Marvel Universe will reveal the fascinating story of Mosy, the first Black Panther. While T'Challa, the legendary Black Panther, debuted in 1966's "Fantastic Four," the legacy of the Black Panthers stretches back centuries and will be explored in depth in the new show.

Mosy, created by Jason Aaron and EAD Ribbit, first appeared in "Marvel Legacy" and was the first Wakandan to survive the heart-shaped herb and win the favor of the panther goddess Bast. His story takes place about a million years ago, when cosmic energies from the Minagi meteor opened rifts in the space-time continuum in Wakanda. These rifts attracted powerful beings, including Odin, who admired Mosy's strength and gave him the ability to lift Mjolnir.

The series will focus not only on Mosy's exploits, but also on the Hatut Zarez, the warriors of Wakanda who recovered dangerous vibranium artifacts across the centuries. It will highlight both the triumphs and challenges associated with the Black Panther legacy.

In addition, there is speculation that Denzel Washington may have a role to play in Black Panther 3, after he hinted in an interview that he is being considered for a specific role played by Ryan Coogler. The possibility of him portraying Mosy or another central character could strengthen the connection between past and present in the Marvel Universe.

The series could also explore alternate universes and future timelines that show the influence of the Black Panther legend on different generations. From the early warriors to the descendants fighting in the Avengers universe, "Eyes of Wakanda" will provide a comprehensive picture of Black Panther history.

With a focus on Mosy and the development of the Black Panther legacy, the upcoming series will usher in an exciting chapter in Marvel history. Fans can look forward to a deep narrative and fascinating characters that will carry on the legacy of Wakanda.

[nezumasa]

[Absolute Nonsense] I think it would be fun if Jason Voorhees is also friends with Ri and Kon tbh. They don’t meet often since ya know. Jason keeps to his camp, and Ri and Kon are generally in Japan.

Like whenever they meet up, Jason just serves them tea (or coffee) from whatever camper van he’s recently raided. The coffee/tea isn’t good (Jason is clumsy and also all the blood soaked in), but it’s more about socializing and catching up even if Jason can’t really speak (he just pantomimes everything/writes it out badly).

(There’s arguably no approval for the whole “kills humans who have sex/trespass” but that’s outside of the pay-grade tbh. Let the Americans handle it.)

Kon, reading a letter from Jason that slipped through the space-time continuum: “He got sent to space this time.”

Ri, pausing his little task: “What”

[burlveneer-music]

My WVUD playlist, 9/23/2024

Nala Sinephro - Continuum 6 The Gaslamp Killer & Jason Wool - Ring Fingers Low Leaf - Innersound Oddity Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel - Toil, Sweat & Sun Jamie Finlay - Destroy Create (feat. Kemani Anderson & Ellen Beth Abdi) [Part II] LCSM (Likwid Continual Space Motion) - The Score Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Youth - The Lizard (feat. Boy George) Husa & Zeyada - Aadi Marewrew - Etukuma Kara (M.Rux Remix) The Balek Band - Hagen & Again Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek - Cool Hand Nasiba Abdullayeva - Aarezoo Gom Kardam (I Lost My Dream) Arşivplak & Gofret - Etrafına Bakıp Durma Kit Sebastian - Bul Bul Bul Assemblage - Satisfaction Matt Berry - I Gotta Limit (feat. Kitty Liv) The Grass Roots - I'd Wait A Million Years Tenaha-Tempson Bobo & Blair - Stand Up and Fight Brute Force - Do It Right Now Tony Levin - Bringing It Down to the Bass Party Dozen - Coup De Gronk Yalla Miku - Suiise The Smile - Zero Sum

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Continuum season 2 — some thoughts

Continuum season 2 — some thoughts

After my rewatch of season 1, I drove straight through Continuum season 2. As I write this, I’m well into season 3 so a strong vote for the bingeability and rewatchability of the show. I’m pleased to have rediscovered, though ended up with several criticisms. What was wrong with Continuum season 2? Season 1 ended with another time traveller (Jason) and warnings of a group known as Freelancers.…