#anti miss martian

[ahoforaveryho]

I don't think YJ M'Gann is given the proper credit she deserves. And by credit, I mean labeling as the toxic, predatory, manipulative groomer she really is. She found an emotionally vulnerable clone who was trying to find his place in the world after being rescued from a lab and rejected by the closest thing to a father he had and started molding him into her perfect boyfriend. And when he started expressing discomfort towards her, she fucked with his mind to erase that discomfort and gaslight him into continuing to be that perfect boyfriend.

And when he inevitably realized what was going on and severed ties with her, how does she respond? By leaping into the arms of the next single guy she could in an attempt to drive her first boyfriend into jealousy so he would take her back. Which, eventually, he does. And then they marry.

Imagine if the genders had been reversed. People would be calling M'Gann the most disgusting, abhorrent character in the franchise, and they would be correct. But because she's a woman and Conner's a man, they get a free pass. Nobody in universe or out calls her out on her shit, and everyone is perfectly fine with her having successfully manipulated her groomed boyfriend into being her life long lover.

There should be more outrage over her and her actions. What she did is not right, by any stretch of the imagination.

[captainshadowgirllostfan]

OMG WHAT KIND OF FUCKING EPISODE AM I WATCHING!!!?

Garfied's arc deals with depression right.

In episode 16 of Season 4, Static Shock, Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl, and ...some robot (whose name idk because idk Doom Patrol that well tbh) stage an intervention per Miss Martian's instruction to help Garfield get help for his depression and see a psychiatrist...

and you know what their fucking method in doing that is!!?

Guilt-tripping Garfield in failing them all because he's depressed over Conner's death along with the many deaths he had to fucking himself up from including his mom, Rita, Tula, Jason, Wally, and now Conner...and there were other names too but I forgot

like wtf is that really how you help someone with depression and help them seek help? Guilt-tripping them and making them feel like THEY'RE THE VILLAIN for failing everyone else.

I don't blame Garfield for not responding to those sorry-ass speeches. EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE made those speeches about themselves. All about themselves. Yes they were talking about Garfield and how he inspired them...but ultimately it was about how they needed him

NOT about what he needs.

And M'Gann....she just ends it "It must feel nice huh...dismissing them all like that"

ugh fuck this bitch I swear. She should be no one's psychiatrist or guidance counselor...even her way of dealing with Harper and her domestic abuse problem was questionable a bit now that I'm seeing how she's dealing with Garfield

I thought M'Gann was a trained guidance counselor

She fucking sucks!

[technoturian]

On a related note to my last, Miss Martian is the Rachel Dolezal of comics.

[batcavescolony]

I refuse to acknowledge this bull shit.

KEEP👏THE👏YOUNG👏 JUSTICE👏TV👏 SHOW👏OUT👏OF👏MY👏COMICS👏 (not hate on the show just let it exist in a void and have no impact on the comics)

[zionistsinfilm]

When you buy or stream Mothers' Instinct, Ava, Interstellar, The Martian, A Most Violent Year, Miss Sloane, Scenes from a Marriage, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, George & Tammy, The Help, Molly's Game, Zero Dark Thirty, you're giving money to Zionists. Jessica Chastain laughed at learning how the IOF kills Palestinians.

[comicgeek2003]

Evil Counterpart Race

A whole species who serve (like says in the title) as the evil version of another species.

Sometimes, the specific race doesn't looks like the other race. There's ocassions where the "good" race isn't good (or at least not harmless), otherwise, the evil race have a good individual who's rebelling against the evil in his race (or even the evil race isn't that evil at they seems).

Examples:

Dungeons and Dragons: The Drow are this to the Elves. An estranged elven subrace that has settled the Underdark, infamous for their cruel matriarchal society, dedication to their evil spider-goddess Lolth, and their burning hatred for surface-dwelling elves. 

Mario and Luigi Partners in Time: The Shroobs has this to the Toads, whereas the Toads are a peaceful, kind folk, the Shroobs are warlike and cruel. They even has an counterpart to the Princess Peach in the Princess Shrobb.

Doctor Who: The Daleks are this to the Time Lords. The Revival initially upgraded the Daleks into this for the Time Lords, their equals in power and enemies during "The Last Time War". Note that this wasn't always true, but as the series drew on, it became more and more this way, before being cemented as such in the New Series. However, "The End of Time" demonstrates that the Time Lords have gladly sunk to their level.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Orcs to the Elves. They're both loyal to the Valar and later the Maiar (in the Orcs cases only to one Vala, Morgoth, and later to one Maia, Sauron, the Elves to a whole pantheon of them) and practically act in reverse to each other (Orcs despise sunlight while Elves like it, Orcs destroy the forest that many Elves guard, etc.).

DC Comics: The green martians like the Martian Manhunter are wise, peaceful, and obscenely powerful (with an exception: Malefic, Martian Manhunter's evil brother). White Martians have all the powers of their green cousins, but are monstrously evil (also with, to date, a single exception in Miss Martian).

The Fairly Oddparents: Anti-Fairies, as their names imply, are the blue-skinned polar opposites of fairies in terms of both morality and their respective fairy counterpart's personality. Like fairies, they can have godchildren and grant wishes, but they're only assigned to mean people and they only grant wishes with sinister results, and they have a love of spreading bad luck amongst humans, so their favorite holiday is Friday the 13th.

Star Trek: The Romulans to the Vulcans. They are descendants of a dissident group of Vulcans who had left Vulcan thousands of years ago. For many years the Romulans were hostile towards the Federation, having never truly been defeated nor allied.

[thesufferingsapphic]

Keep yourself safe 😝😝

[conspiracy-crows]

Forgiveness

Danny's core pulsed and purred as he wrapped himself tightly around his boyfriend. They snuggled closer, deeply asleep thanks to the soft low rumbling in his chest. It was late, and really he should be asleep as well, but he couldn't. As amazing as his partner, his friends, his new family, had made the day, the ache still sat in his chest.

No matter how amazing his death-day was now. How safe and warm and comfortable he was in his new home after so long. The night was always hard. It always hurt and ached. His scars itched and his mind would refuse to shut down until the early dawn.

His parents. The Doctors' Fenton. Always came to the forefront of his mind on nights like this. The GIW and Anti-Ecto acts were long gone. The Justice League had taken care of that very quickly once he had come to their attention. But the Doctors Fenton did not give up so easily. Even if they were locked up now, their words still haunted him.

"Give me back my SON!" Maddie had screamed, even as Superman knocked the Ecto-Rifle from her hands. "You MONSTER! You may have tricked them, but you'll never trick us! We know better!"

"Mom-" His voice broke, his core ached. J'onn stood next to him, a hand on his shoulder. "Why won't you listen to me!"

He had only just managed to prevent a wail from escaping him as he collapsed into the martian's arms. Clung to the man for dear life the way only a lost, lonely child could. He couldn't watch as his parents were arrested and taken away.

For all he had been almost 20 then, a part of him would always be the scared 14 year old who died in his parent's lab. Would always be the shaking 18 year old who had to dodge blasts and nets from his own parents as he ran away. After he had come out to them as a ghost

He'd never even got to come out to them about the normal things.

The arms around him moved, shifted slightly, pulling him from the memories. There was a rustle as the blanket was pulled up. Danny realized his core had stopped purring, and that always woke Jason up.

"Still awake?" the rough voice of his boyfriend asked softly. "In your head again?"

"Yeah..." Danny replied, snuggling closer into the other's chest. "I miss who they used to be...Or who I thought they were anyway."

"I know... I'm so sorry Danny." Jason's hand gently rubbed his back, the other resting in his hair. "I'm sorry they couldn't see you."

"I just wish... I wish I could still be angry sometimes." He murmured softly. Closing his eyes and letting the tears fall. "It hurt less. To be angry."

"I know..." The other man said, holding Danny closer. Strong hands comforted him as Jason hummed softly in his chest. Still not quite able to get the hang of purring like Danny could.

But there was no going back to the anger. To the hate that had kept him going in that first year and a half, before he had ended up in Gotham. Before he had finally begun to heal his heart, his core, from the betrayal his parents had done.

He couldn't be angry anymore. He had tried so hard for a while. It had been so much easier than letting the grief sweep him away, But the simple fact was, Danny had forgiven them years ago. Not that they would ever find out. Not that they ever could.

Now, the pain washed over him. It got better, little by little as time went on. But grief never truly goes away.

Especially not when you mourn the living.

[adventure-showdown]

What is the Best Doctor Who Story Ever Told?

Hello everybody and welcome to this, frankly ridiculously sized, tournament between not only every televised Doctor Who story, not only the spinoffs, not only a large number of minisodes, but over a 100 audios and dozens of other stories from other corners of the EU.

Now we will have to whittle over 600 stories down to jusst one, that is a lot of matches, a lot of rounds, just a lot, until very late in the game, rounds will be posted across several days. Right now the goal is to post (up to) new matches daily from Sunday to Thursday, with Friday's a day off for my own sake, which in my current plan places the final on the 18th of December (thats right, this'll be out of date before its even over, during round 2 in fact)

You can use this form to submit propaganda for your favourite stories (or anti propaganda for ones you hate). there is a more checkable list of nominations here if you want to know what you can submit propaganda for

without further ado

ROUND 1 (Group Stage)

earlier in the year I ran some polls between televised Doctor Who stories, the top 50% for each Doctor have automatically advanced to Round 2, which is why (a) there are stories missing, and (b) the groups between the remaing stories are a lot deadlier

Every day will have groups from across the Doctor Who Universe, from Classic Who, New Who, TV Spinoffs, and the EU

Day 6

Group 1

The Twin Dilemma

Attack of the Cybermen

The Two Doctors

Timelash

Mindwarp

The Ultimate Foe

Group 2

Time and the Rani

Paradise Towers

Delta and the Bannermen

Dragonfire

Silver Nemesis

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Group 3

The Tsuranga Conundrum

The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Praxeus

Can You Hear Me?

Flux

Legend of the Sea Devils

Group 4

The Ghost Monument

Arachnids in the UK

Kerblam!

Orphan 55

Ascension of the Cybermen/The Timeless Children

Revolution of the Daleks

Once, Upon Time

Survivors of the Flux

The Vanquishers

Group 5

Mutant Copper

The Custodians

Taphony of the Time Loop

Robot Gladiators

Mind Snap/Angel of the North/The Last Precinct/Hound of the Korven/The Eclipse of the Korven

Group 6

For Tonight We Might Die

The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo

Nightvisiting

Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart/Brave-ish Heart

Detained

The Metaphysical Engine or What Quill Did

The Lost

Group 7

The Last Beacon

Serenity

Rhys and Ianto's Excellent Barbecue

A Spoonful of Mayhem

The Lumiat

Too Many Masters

Group 8

Expiry Dating

Ghosts

The Cars that Ate London!

A Photograph to Remember

Psychodrome

Iterations of I

Group 9

Living Legend

The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50

The Bekdel Test

Oh No It Isn't

The Eleven Day Empire/The Shadow Play

Smoke and Mirrors

Group 10

Dooms Day hour 1

An Adventure in Space and Time

Shada (1992) version with linking narration from Tom Baker

Shada animated reconstruction

Return to Shada webcast with 8

Group 11

Dreamland

Real Time

Scream of the Shalka

The Infinite Quest

Ronald Rat continuity announcement

The Man from M.I.5

Group 12

Dr Who and the Daleks

Dalek's Invasion of Earth 2150AD

Doctor in Distress

Doctorin' the TARDIS

I'm gonna Spend my Christmas with a Dalek

previous days under the cut

Day 1

Group 1

The Sensorites

Planet of Giants

The Web Planet

The Crusade

Mission to the Unknown

The Massacre

The Celestial Toymaker

The Savages

Group 2

Marco Polo

Galaxy 4

The Myth Makers

The Ark

The Gunfighters

The Smugglers

Group 3

The Underwater Menace

The Ice Warriors

The Dominators

The Krotons

The Seeds of Death

Group 4

The End of the World

The Unquiet Dead

Aliens of London/World War Three

The Long Game

Boom Town

Group 5

The Christmas Invasion

Love and Monsters

Gridlock

Voyage of the Damned

Planet of the Dead

Group 6

Invasion of the Bane

Revenge of the Slitheen

Eye of the Gorgon

Warriors of Kudlak

Whatever Happened to Sarah-Jane

The Lost Boy

Group 7

The Last Sontaran

The Day of the Clown

Secrets of the Stars

The Mark of the Berserker

The Temptation of the Sarah-Jane Smith

Enemy of the Bane

Group 8

Prisoner of the Judoon

The Mad Woman in the Attic

The Wedding of Sarah-Jane Smith

The Eternity Trap

Mona Lisa's Revenge

Group 9

The Marian Conspiracy

The Apocalyspe Element

The Shadow of the Scourge

The Holy Terror

Storm Warning

Group 10

Minuet in Hell

Loups-Garoux

The Chimes of Midnight

Seasons of Fear

The Time of the Daleks

Group 11

Jubilee

Neverland

Spare Parts

Creatures of Beauty

Doctor Who and the Pirates

Group 12

Omega

Master

Zagreus

Scherzo

The Natural History of Fear

Group 13

The Room With All the Doors

Grey Matter

Lepidoptery for Beginners

Something Borrowed

Nothing at the End of the Lane

Group 14

Divided Loyalties

Fear of the Dark

Fear Itself

12 Doctors, 12 Stories

Scratchman

The Stranger

Group 15

Vampire Science

Alien Bodies

Seeing I

The Scarlet Empress

Unnatural History

Interference

Group 16

The Blue Angel

The Burning

The Turing Test

The Year of Intelligent Tigers

The City of the Dead

The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

Day 2

Group 1

The Highlanders

The Faceless Ones

The Abominable Snowmen

The Wheel in Space

The Space Pirates

Group 2

Ambassadors of Death

Colony in Space

Day of the Daleks

The Time Monster

Frontier in Space

Death to the Daleks

Group 3

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The Claws of Axos

The Mutants

Planet of the Daleks

The Monster of Peladon

Planet of Spiders

Group 4

New Earth

Tooth and Claw

The Girl in the Fireplace

Fear Her

The Shakespeare Code

Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

The Lazarus Experiment

The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

Group 5

Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

The Idiot's Lantern

42

The Doctor's Daughter

The Next Doctor

Group 6

The Gift

The Nightmare Man

The Vault of Secrets

Death of the Doctor

The Empty Planet

Group 7

Lost in Time

Goodbye, Sarah-Jane Smith

Sky

The Curse of Clyde Langer

The Man Who Never Was

Group 8

Everything Changes

Day One

Ghost Machine

Cyberwoman

Small Worlds

Group 9

Arrangements for War

The Harvest

Faith Stealer

Caerdroia

Terror Firma

Group 10

Singularity

Other Lives

The Kingmaker

The Girl Who Never Was

The Condemned

The Doomwood Curse

Group 11

The Magic Mousetrap TIE

The Company of Friends: Benny's Story

The Company of Friends: Fitz's Story

The Company of Friends: Izzy's Story

The Company of Friends: Mary's Story TIE

A Death in the Family

Group 12

Robophobia

The Silver Turk

1963: The Assassination Games

The Widow's Assassin

Dalek Soul

The Grey Man of the Mountain

Group 13

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Anachrophobia

The Book of the Still

The Crooked World

Camera Obscura

The Gallifrey Chronicles

Group 14

The Left-Handed Hummingbird

Human Nature

Lungbarrow

The Blood Cell

Engines of War

Group 15

The Book of War

This Town Will Never Let Us Go

Of the City of the Saved

Doctor Who and Shada (fan novelisation)

Harvest of Time

Group 16

The Star Beast

Voyager

The World Shapers

Ground Zero

The Flood

Day 3

Group 1

Robot

Revenge of the Cybermen

The Android Invasion

The Sunmakers

Meglos

Group 2

The Brain of Morbius

Image of the Fendahl

The Power of Kroll

The Creature from the Pit

Nightmare of Eden

Group 3

Victory of the Daleks

The Curse of the Black Spot

Closing Time

Asylum of the Daleks

The Bells of Saint John

Name of the Doctor

Group 4

The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood

Night Terrors

The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

A Town Called Mercy

Hide

Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

The Crimson Horror

Group 5

Countrycide

Greeks Bearing Gifts

They Keep Killing Suzie

Random Shoes

Out of Time

Group 6

Combat

Captain Jack Harkness

End of Days

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Sleeper

To the Last Man

Group 7

Meat

Adam

Reset

Dead Man Walking

A Day in the Death

Something Borrowed

Group 8

The Blood of the Daleks

Horror of Glam Rock

Immortal Beloved

Phobos

No More Lies

Group 9

Human Resources

To the Death

The Eleven

The Red Lady

The Galileo Trap

Group 10

The Gift

The Sonomancer

Absent Friends

The Eighth Piece

The Doomsday Chronometer

Group 11

The Crucible of Souls

Ship in a Bottle

Songs of Love

The Side of the Angels

Stop the Clock

Group 12

The Fallen

The Land of Happy Endings

Old Friends

Space in Dimension Relative and Time

Time in Reverse

Group 13

The Zero Imperative

The Devil of Winterborne

Unnatural Selection

Ghosts of Winterborne

When to Die

Group 14

Summoned by Shadows

More Than a Messiah

In Memory Alone

The Terror game

Breach of the Peace

Eye of the Beholder

Day 4

Group 1

Planet of Evil

The Invisible Enemy

The Invasion of Time

The Armageddon Factor

Destiny of the Daleks

Group 2

The Sontaran Experiment

The Masque of Mandragora

The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Underworld

The Leisure Hive

Full Circle

Group 3

The Lodger

The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People

Let's Kill Hitler

Cold War

Nightmare in Silver

Group 4

Into the Dalek

Robot of Sherwood

Kill the Moon

The Pyramid at the End of the World

The Eaters of light

Group 5

From Out of the Rain

Adrift

Fragments

Exit WOunds

Children of Earth

Miracle Day

Group 6

K9 and Company

Regeneration/Liberation/The Korven

The Bounty Hunter

Sirens of Ceres

Fear Itself

The Fall of the House of Gryffen

Group 7

Escape from Kaldor

Better Watch Out/Fairytale in Salzburg

Companion Piece

Day of the Master

Paradox of the Daleks

Inside Every Warrior

Group 8

Stranded

UNIT Dating

Here Lies Drax

The Love Vampires

Albie's Angels

Group 9

Solitaire

Peri and the Piscon Paradox TIE

The Cold Equations TIE

The Last Post

The Scorchies

Nightshade

Group 10

Death and the Queen

The Sword of the Chevalier

No Place

The Creeping Death

Out of Time (individual story)

Wink

Group 11

Wartime

Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough

Downtime

Sil and the Seeds of Andor

Group 12

Wall's Sky Ray lollies advert

Merry Christmas Doctor Who

Step into the 80s/On Through the 80s

A Fix With Sontarans

Dalek Weetabix advert

Famin Appeal 1985

Group 13

The Shrink

Search Out Space

Dimensions in Time

Emperor of the Daleks

The Curse of Fatal Death

Day 5

Group 1

Four to Doomsday

Terminus

Warriors of the Deep

The Awakening

Resurrection of the Daleks

Group 2

The Visitation

Black Orchid

Time-Flight

Arc of Infinity

The King's Demons

Group 3

Listen

The Girl Who Died

Sleep No More

Knock Knock

The Lie of the Land

The Empress of Mars

Group 4

The Caretaker

In the Forest of the Night

Last Christmas

The Woman Who Lived

The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Twice Upon a Time

Group 5

The Jaws of Orthrus

Dream-Eaters

Curse of Anubis

Oroborus

Alien Avatar

Group 6

The Aeolian

The Last Oak Tree

Black Hunger

The Cambridge Spy

Lost Library of Ukko

Group 7

Square One

First Days of Phaidon

Gallifrey IV

Warfare

Unity

Group 8

The Queen of Time

Paradise 5

The Elite

I am the Master

Forever Fallen

A Full Life

Group 9

The Fifth Citadel

The Forgotten Villafe

Peshka

The Concrete Cage TIE

Troubled Waters TIE

The Hollow King

Group 10

Born Again

Tardisodes

Time Crash

Space/Time

The Naked Truth

Night and the Doctor

Group 11

Pond Life

P.S.

The Great Detective

The Bells of Saint John: A prequel

The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later

Clara and the TARDIS

Group 12

Rain Gods

Night of the Doctor

The Last Day

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

The Doctor's Meditation

Farewell Sarah-Jane

[whump-me]

Martyr, Chapter 9: True Believers

Chapter 9 of Martyr, a novel-length sci-fi whump story about a captured Martian rebel with a secret and the renowned interrogator who has waited a decade for the chance to break him. This series is best read in order. Masterpost here.

Contains: defiant whumpee, cold whumper, restraints, interrogation, verbal sparring, war crimes mentions

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Wraith

Isadora paused to draw in a long breath, then another. She sounded like she was breathing through a straw all of a sudden. Huh. Now that was interesting. She looked like she was actually having trouble getting herself to talk.

She was probably faking, of course. Isadora Pope didn’t have feelings, let alone show them to a prisoner. No, she just wanted him to think they were here to bare their souls to one another—as if they were two old friends sitting on a park bench late at night, staring up at the dome, sharing a bottle of something bitter and strong between them. As if anything could make him forget where he was.

On the other hand, she did have feelings—he had firsthand evidence of that. Firsthand, literally—his right one, the one she had kicked when she had lost control.

He leaned in attentively as she took another delaying breath. Whether she was faking or not, this was going to be interesting.

“I was a young soldier back then,” she said. “Earth was my first assignment. I drew the short straw—I didn’t want to be here. No one did. I wanted to make a difference by fighting the rebels in Russia who were burning their own cities to spite the Unified Earth forces—not babysit a bunch of factory workers.”

Babysitting. Was that what they called it? The only thing that stopped Wraith from tightening his hands into fists was that he knew exactly how much pain it would cause him. Instead, he tightened his jaw until he could practically hear the bones straining against each other.

“It was sheer dumb luck that I wasn’t in the right dome when it happened,” she said. “My commanding officer sent me to deliver a message halfway across the planet—or at least it seemed that way to me that day. I resented being used as a messenger. If there’s one job that feels more useless than guarding a factory door, it’s running a message clear across to the next dome like a cheap drone. So I went as slowly as I could. I suppose I thought I was making a point. I missed the train back, and to take the next one. It was halfway to the dome when it exploded.”

She swallowed. Her neck was tight. She didn’t look like Isadora Pope just then. She certainly didn’t look like a statue or a goddess. She looked… human. Like anyone who had seen too much—and that was everyone Wraith knew, these days. It made the lines of her face looked uncomfortably familiar.

It was an act.

“From where I was sitting, I had a great view,” she said, her voice bitter and raw where she had shown nothing but ice and stone before. An act. It had to be. “I saw buildings fly apart. I saw… people. Or at least pieces of them. I even thought I saw my commanding officer, but it was probably my imagination. It wasn’t like there was much to recognize. He was missing half his face.”

Wraith shook his head slowly. “Is this supposed to make me feel sorry for you? Because even if I believed this little sob story of yours, which I don’t, you’d have to do a lot better than that. You want war stories? I’ve got all kinds I could tell you. Like the time you murdered an old man for hanging anti-Earth posters in the tunnels. We took out the soldiers who did it. And by we, I mean I. I took care of both of them personally. Dropped them on your doorstep after.” He gave Isadora a jagged grin. “And in retaliation, Special Security killed everyone the man had been in contact with for the past six months, and all their families with them. You were in charge by then, weren’t you? You were the one who ordered it. So if you want to trade stories, be prepared to come up with a decade’s worth.”

“They sent me back to Earth,” said Isadora. “They said I needed to recuperate. Get therapy. No doubt rot away in some desk job for the rest of my life. I let them send me back, because when you’re a soldier, you do what you’re told. I took the six months. I did all the therapy, aced it with flying colors, until I had my clean bill of health in hand. And then…”

“And then you did what a soldier isn’t supposed to do,” Wraith guessed. “You objected to your orders. You asked to be sent back here, and then you asked again, and again, until they put you on a ship just to be rid of you. Can’t say I blame them.” He shook his head. “This place almost killed you. It’s only dumb luck that kept you alive. And practically the first thing you did was demand to come back. You’re one to talk about people who have more anger than sense.”

But he frowned, because while a mission of revenge made sense, it didn’t fit what he knew about Isadora Pope. Then again, all he knew came from her former prisoners, which meant they hadn’t been in much of a state to give reliable testimony. But in the short time he’d known Isadora personally, she hadn’t struck him as the vengeful type.

For all her talk of his crimes, for all she must have spent the past ten years wishing death on the leader of the rebellion, she hadn’t shown even the slightest temptation to vent a decade’s worth of anger on him. Not like that guard from his first day here. She had been coldly professional, even while breaking his fingers. When he had finally made her angry, it didn’t have anything to do with the long list of crimes in his file. It was because he had made her look bad.

Isadora let out a mirthless chuckle. “People like you see everything through the lens of anger, don’t you? You’re animals, letting the heat in your blood drive you this way and that, until it drives you to your own destruction. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t only a problem with your side. Every year, Earth sends me recruits brimming with the desire to avenge those who died. Some of them are very good at their jobs, even fresh out of training. It doesn’t matter—I always send them back. Anger is a dangerous master. Especially when you convince yourself it’s not the one in charge.”

“You missed one,” said Wraith, thinking of the beating he had taken.

“Pardon?”

“One of your vengeance-fueled recruits. He decided to take out his anger on me when I first got here. It’s a good thing his fear of you was stronger, or we might not be having this conversation right now.”

Her eyes flashed. “Don’t change the subject.”

There it was again—that small spark of heat in her cold eyes. He had done it again, poked her ego right in the soft squishy middle, and he hadn’t even really been trying. He smiled at her, just to let her know she had seen. Aloud, he only said, “If you didn’t come back for revenge, then why? I know it wasn’t for the weather.”

She went silent for a moment, and Wraith got the impression she was weighing her words carefully, trying to decide how open to be. That alone was surprising. Hadn’t she come prepared with all the lies she’d need? Was it possible she was actually telling him the truth?

When she spoke, her voice was strangely soft. “Purpose,” she said. “The thing I thought the military would give me. I wanted to be a part of something greater than myself. I want my life to mean something. But there isn’t much meaning in following orders and delivering messages. My therapist used to say sometimes tragedy opens a door in a person’s mind that lets them see what they were born for. In my case, it was true.”

If she hadn’t been Isadora Pope, if he hadn’t known she must be an accomplished liar, he would have thought she was giving him a genuine confession. Hell, he was halfway to believing it, even knowing what he knew. Something about the look in her eyes, the tone of her voice, spoke of an almost painful sincerity. It made him want to trust her, even though he knew there was nothing more dangerous in this world.

“So what’s your purpose, if not revenge?” he asked. “Seems to me there aren’t many other reasons to care so deeply about wiping us out.”

“From the beginning, Earth was careless about Mars. Everyone resented being here, and so no one approached the task of pacifying your planet with the necessary singleness of purpose. Myself included.” She shook her head. A few strands of hair flew across her face. She pushed them out of the way. “My purpose is to change that. I’m here because someone has to care what happens on this planet—care enough to give up everything to make sure what happened ten years ago can never happen again.”

Maybe it was the way her perfectly straight hair grew ever-so-slightly mussed when she shook her head. Or maybe it was how the severe lights overhead reflected off her eyes, which gleamed with raw conviction suddenly, making her look like she was lit from within. Whatever the trigger, another image popped back into his head, overlaid on top of the image of Isadora sitting in front of him. He saw Gabriel, sitting at his desk, his hair like a halo. And just like that, he knew why his gut wanted to trust her.

That conviction in her voice was Gabriel’s conviction. That glow in her eyes, which grew until it seemed to outshine the harsh light from above, was Gabriel’s inner fire. It triggered a reflexive warm glow in him, even though that was the last thing he wanted to feel in Isadora Pope’s presence. And along with that glow, he felt a familiar yearning, a pull just above his belly button—the longing that came from being just outside the circle of light, wanting in.

Wraith wasn’t a true believer. Not like Gabriel. The only inner fire he carried with him was of the type Isadora so reviled. Anger drove him, hot and bright and righteous. But it was not his master. And Gabriel was the reason for that.

It would have mastered him, back in those early days, if he hadn’t had Gabriel by his side. Oh, how he had hated Gabriel’s voice of reason, his soft words and gentle touches that cooled the fire in Wraith’s veins. But it had kept him alive.

He had come to appreciate the deep conviction that drove Gabriel. But he didn’t share it. He was grateful for that. If he believed the way Gabriel did, he would never have been able to do half the things he had done. Gabriel was all heart, and his heart still remembered how to do something other than burn. It was impossible to do what was necessary when you felt everything.

But he understood true believers, even if he wasn’t one of them. Ten years’ worth of late-night conversations with Gabriel would do that. Which meant Isadora had just handed him a powerful key.

He fought to keep himself from grinning like a madman. He didn’t want her to know what she had done. Not just yet.

He knew who Isadora Pope was now. He knew it the way he knew Gabriel—all the way down to his bones. And because he knew Gabriel’s secret wishes and hidden fears and darkest thoughts, it couldn’t be that hard to figure out all those things about Isadora. It was like that stuff in school he had barely paid attention to—given X, solve for Y. Where X was the man he loved, and Y was his worst enemy.

“So you see,” said Isadora, jolting him from his triumphant thoughts, “I understand you better than you think.”

At first, he didn’t understand how she was echoing his own thoughts back to him. But she wasn’t, of course. She thought she had the key to him. That because of who he was, because of his position in the rebellion, he shared those core convictions, that inner fire. Because how could someone lead a rebellion for ten years otherwise? How could he inspire people to follow him?

With any luck, she would never know the truth of that. What he had truly done for the rebellion. How he had ended up where he was.

But her assumptions could serve him well. She wanted him to play Gabriel, did she? He could play Gabriel. There was no one on this planet or any other that he knew better.

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[doom-nerdo-666]

Might as well make a list of alternate Doom lore/story ideas:

What if Samuel was actually of Earth/Human origin and his brother was Cpt Hayden from the D3 novels

What if Samuel became the Icon of Sin

what if there was a version of the Sentinel who were descendents of Earth instead of the other way around, by being a portion of Earth's population that terraformed an alien planet and became a culture of sci-fi knights

sentinels existing in Earth's medieval ages

what if Immora was a paradise for sinners and horrible people turned into those 2016 MP skins of cultist/demonic skin sets

what if there was Sin based energy after soul based energy

what if Sentinels had their version of the BFG

what if the UAC tried to mimic Sentinel weaponry and even try to figure out making their own Slayers

what if some demons like the Sabaoth became species and therefore enemy types instead of a one time boss

what if Crash and Kira Morgan were the same character, at least in one version of the setting

what if the boss that Doomguy punched in D1's manual returned and became a demonic rival/anti-Slayer

Doomguy as a creation of the UAC, like a cyborg/clone program

Hell priests with more twisted, "Hellraiser" designs and based off Earth catholic priests

Icon of Sin's giant head growing out of Jupiter

Cultist/Hellish base on the sun or somewhere in space

Doomslayer is a powerfull form that Doomguy can transform into at times, so he's both a UAC guy and Sentinel guy

Those 3 Maykr/demonic/Wraith statues becoming related to the Khan Maykr and being analogous to the 3 demon keys and Unmaker respectively

Urdak at some point looking like a "more traditional Heaven" before revealing its true form (and Doomguy ends up being shocked)

Spectres being the spirits of dead Pinkies

Forgotten ones being evolved Lost Souls after their former selves being literally forgotten

Doomguy owning a demon killing business or taking over the UAC

Blursphere power up can cause missing limbs, skin or even make someone disappear entirely

Soulspheres have tormented souls

Icon of Sin acting like Hexen's Korax with his face appearing on stuff just to laugh at the player

Doomslayer being literally faceless: Because he ripped off his face just to become the Slayer, but then he puts his face back on like a mask to "regain his humanity" and becomes Doomguy again and loses his powers.

Those concept art archdemons/Hell royalty being representation of different sins

Phobos and Crash going to the 2016/Eternal universe and becoming Slayers on their own

Doom Bible's Dark Claw being the Cyberdemon's missing arm

Stone Imps being living statues and Fire Barons being sculpted from lava

The way how teleportation works is that the subject would die if they go from A to B: So instead, they go to "Z" before going to B. Turns out they were going to Hell but for a short instance and that's how the UAC opened a portal to Hell

Tei Tenga being related to the D3 Martians

Aliens like those from the 90's novels pretending to be demons for fun before actual demons killed them

Mixom and Moxim are sub companies under the UAC monopoly, though it doesn’t stop their rivalries.

"Meta" stuff like the UAC having a scientist design the BFG9000 after a toy gun

Either the UAC or an angel/Maykr has been spreading "holy dust" over the Earth and manmade weapons, which is why anyone on Earth has a chance to kill demons (with the UAC's case, it's like Doom's equivalent to the chemtrails plane stuff lol)

Most may not be good but this is just for fun.

Maybe update it later.

Some are from that Meytr post and others come different posts here.

[jesncin]

shapeshifter character comign from someone who do liked shapeshifter character who's villain, cunning, mischievous etc i agree there's very little of shapeshifter character who is a hero or not being the villain. Martian manhunter and miss martian only a few shapeshifter that i remember not being the villain oh wait camilo madrigal from encanto he is mischievous but not evil or the villain so little bit refreshing

bodhisattva avalokitesvara bodhisattva who use the shapehshifting power for benefit of the goodi think we need more shapehshifter who's kind, cunning but not evil, a hero. Why i mention bodhisattva avalokitesvara or also known as guan yin he took different form to help sentient being

mystique her character as villain i loved her so much but omg she's questionable mother, horrible person or mutant, and the list goes on

copyvat aka vanessa carlysle deadpool love interest her character is different from mystique. she have low self worth, she's insecure, a mess but she's not the villain well anti hero shapeshifter who just trying to survive

I should specify that even though I said shapeshifter characters tend to be "deceptive, tricksters, or mischievous" that I don't mean I dislike them because they're villains! Plenty of shapeshifter characters are heroes/good guys/morally grey characters while also having those characteristics. Which makes seeing those traits over and over again regardless of where they are on the moral spectrum personally boring to me (a very subjective thing!).

It's like twin (especially identical) characters for me, most writers (particularly non-multi birth people) write us as mischievous and tricksters regardless of whether we're evil twins, comic relief sidekicks, good guys, or mysterious morally grey entities. I'd just like to see something different!

[captainshadowgirllostfan]

I feel for Miss Martian...in the sense...I kinda know what it’s like to fail your own younger brother

And I don’t make excuses. I mean I feel the full guilt even if he never put it against me like Miss Martian’s brother whose complicated name escapes me does

And I think the anger is totally justified

Miss Martian abandoned her own little brother...just so she could live a different identity

Sighing and she’s still trying to justify her own actions even if they are understandable and no doubt the narrative will side with her and her own little brother would apologize to her for being angry at being abandoned

Because that’s generally how things are written with her

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I’ve had this idea for how an S7/spinoff focusing on Lena could’ve gone post-series finale. I’ll probably never have time to write it (just started a new job with zero free-time) but I wanted to share it because I think it’s such a cool idea:

Lena’s experimenting with a spell that accidentally sends her into another reality/parallel earth. One where Superman and Supergirl don’t exist (and neither do the Luthors); Alex Danvers is the CEO of Liberty Media (an anti-alien news platform); Cat Grant is head of the DEO (and secretly Miss Martian); Andrea is a high school teacher by day/vigilante by night; Brainy is the owner of Q-Corp (Liberty Media’s biggest rival and pro-alien platform) with Nxly as his anxious and bubbly secretary; and Nia is head of Obsidian Tech (secretly funded by Mon-El, the leader of Leviathan). Lena can’t figure out how to get back to her earth and seeks help from AU Andrea and AU Cat. But when AU Agent Liberty and his army starts an attack on AU National City’s alien residents, Lena decides this world needs a Supergirl… even if it has to be her in the suit. So she uses her magic to replicate some of Kara’s powers/substitute for them and her own take on Kara’s suit to be the hero this world needs (until she can find a way to return to Kara and her earth). But discovers during her first battle that the AU Agent Liberty is actually a she and a fellow witch! Which is why Lena’s spell accidentally brought her here and until she can solve the mystery of who this masked witch is she can’t return to her earth. With her taking leadership of the AU heroes of this world and being an-all new magic-based type of Supergirl (but still taking inspiration from her friendship with Kara, while doing things her way).

Interesting! This is a compelling concept.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Killer Family

by GenderFluidDisaster

One fateful night, Martha and Thomas Wayne were shot dead by an unknown assailant, and their nine year old so went missing, with no clue as to where the tragic heir might have gone.

Two days later, a boy with no memory wakes up in a fight club run by the infamous gangster Black Mask, with only a Gotham Knights sweater and a pair of jeans to his unknown name.

(This is part of my series where the Justice League are younger and anti-heroes. The first few fics in the series will be explaining every heroes origin story and setting the scene for the formation of the Justice League. Right now I don't plan on featuring Martian Manhunter or the Hawks cause I don't have a very good grasp on their characters.)

Words: 3138, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The League of Anti-heroes and Single Parents (An Alternate Justice League)

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dinah Lance, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, Joker (DCU), Roman Sionis

Relationships: Dinah Lance & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Dinah Lance, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Bruce Wayne is Not Batman, Amnesiac Bruce Wayne, Dinah Lance is Black Canary, Kinda, it's weird - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Jason Todd is So Done, Morally Ambiguous Tim Drake, Tim Drake is Catlad | Stray

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/45200674

[nityarawal]

3/20/2024

I Need An FBI Agent

Morning Songs

I Like Waking Up

To NPR

Wishing Me Happy

Norooz

I Like Waking Up

In The Dark

Watching The Rising

Moon

I Like Knowing

You're Wanting Me

Almost Here

Imagining Spooning

It's Never Easy

Leaving The Gay

Man's Lair

We're Not Given' Up

Even Though We

Haven't Gotten Our

Assets

Alfredo Servanti Says

Need An FBI Agent

But Are You Sure

Is That Really Who

Has Your Back

Or Is It An Illusion

I Need An FBI

Agent

He Says

They Were Really

Good

In My Last Life

Need An FBI Agent

To Be On Government

Watch

You Need An FBI

Agent

For The Government 

To Spend

Zillions Of Dollars

Watching Your Head

Want To Be On

The Unicorn Op

Project

Eloning With Me

At T.I.T.T.S.

Want To Elon 

Over To Mars

With Us

Triangulate

Prudently

Scientifically 

Camp Bros

Friends'

With Your Own

True Love

And God

Worried About 

Becoming A Meme

Got Your Freedom

Now Fred

Wishing For 'Ya Old

Casino Restored

Agua Calliente

Your Uncle Built

Got Your Freedom

Now Fred

But How Do We

Know You're Not

FBI

So Many Memes 

So Many Elons'

Following Me

All Accusing

Wolf

Pack

Identity Theft

Who Do We Turn

To

Jane Doe

John Doe

Elon Doe

He's Called

Please No

Disappointed By

Officers

Who Do We Turn 

To

Rangers

Trumpleberry Charged

For $450 Million

Who Do We Turn To

Trillionaires

Not The Old 

President

He's A Lemon

Like My Lexus

Not The Current 

One

Or The Second Gentleman

All Lemons

Watching Britney

Dancing In Circles

15 Years

But Don't Talk

About It Says The

Attys

Gays Who Stole

Our Lair

America First Legal

ACLU

Ashby Sorrenson

Grant Funk

Defenders

Capitalistic

War Mongers

Invitro Addicts

Of Court

Anti-Apartheid

Nonsense

Anti-Semetic

Trust Issues

Keep Me Out

Secret Service

I Don't Want

Your FBI

Illuminati

It's An Illusion

Boys' Club

Gone Awry

Love The Idea

Of Mars

Strapping Lads

Astronauts

Martian Men

That Want An'

Offer More

Love The Idea

My Strapping Lads

My Little Knights

Who'd Do Anything

For Moms'

We Adore

My Little Saints

My Little Psalms

We Hear You

Anjali

Eloning

Prana

IKR

I Know Right

We Say All Day

IKR

Kyan

We Hear You

We Do

Isha

Prana

Subtly

Loudly

We Do

Pointing North

Rising East

My Prana Saints

My North Star

God Kids

At Large

Nannying With

Pole Stars

My Oxygen

Will Puff Us Up

And Get Us

To Mars

Puff Us Up

Somehow

With Love

Missing

Ingredient

Baraye

Peace

Nowruz

Moms'

Peace,

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