For Freedom and Hope, 2024
By Steph C, an illustrator & visual development artist
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[ID: an uncoloured drawing for a panel next to the publicized version. They're both from the comic Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #194. In them, Batman is shown from the waist up. He's looking at Jim Gordon, who's off panel, with a penitent expression after being accused of something he secretly did do. He has his palm pressed against his chest and is blocking the bat emblem as his other hand is clasped ontop of it. In the initial drawing, there's a halo floating above his head as well as several tiny hearts mixed in with the lights that surround him. In the publicized panel, the hearts and halo has been removed and two speech bubbles have been added. He's in front of a terra rose background and is starting to say, “Jim, I don't even know what you're...” But Jim cuts him off, saying, “Stop it. I'm tired of this.”
The third photo is a description of the drawing from the artist's (Seth Fisher) website. It reads: This is another page that the DC editors changed: no halos or hearts around Batman, no matter how (disingenuously) contrite he is. In the final edition, the halo and heart in the center bottom frame have been excised.]
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Mabel Pines; Visionary
Dipper and Mabel are 14 turning 15 by the time they come back to Gravity Falls, their parents hesitant to send them back after the stories they told upon their return.
After returning home with Dipper and a surprise Mr. Waddles, Mabel and Dipper were surprised to learn that part of the reason for them being sent off to their Grunkle Stan for the summer was so that their parents could finish hashing out their divorce agreement. This was something that Stan hadn't been told about either, their parents not wanting him to let it slip that they were divorcing and to tell the kids once everything was settled which they hoped to have done by end of summer.
It wasn't something particularly messy, they split pretty amicably and just wanted to be able to hash out details without worrying the kids without a plan in place to let them know exactly what would be happening moving forward.
Mabel took it harder than Dipper, crying and running off after their parents told them. Her brother found her hiding in his closet with Waddles, he sat with her for awhile until she was ready to talk. She still didn't like it, arguing with her parents that they couldn't just change their whole lives like that when they'd just gotten home. She argued that they loved each other and that this wasn't fair. Their parents had already set up therapy for them both at the suggestion of the divorce attorney though, and eventually she started to accept it.
She still wasn't happy about it, but both her parents still spent time with her and they tried to do holidays and things together still. Even after their Dad started seeing someone about a month before their 14th birthday. He didn't hide it from them, but he didn't have them meet her until a few months later. Mabel likes her well enough, even if she does wish that her parents were still together.
Once they were near the end of their Freshman year of High School the two of them started begging their parents to let them go to Gravity Falls for their summer again and see their friends, they missed the people they'd met there. They especially missed their Grunkles, when their parents agreed and got a hold of Stan they had to figure out a place to stay. That ended up being the old Northwest Mansion, McGucket having been funding Stan and Ford's travels and research the last nearly 2 years.
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Even one shooting star is a fine thing to see; but these were dozens, and then scores, and then hundreds, till it was like silver rain: and it went on and on.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle" - C. S. Lewis
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Since the Collector was able to trap King in a nightmare vision and then flat out said "my powers don't work on King" like five minutes later, the dreamscape can't be a Collector-specific power. It must be something else (maybe something other people could potentially learn like how Belos learned the draining spell) which the Collector supplemented with their puppet stuff. I think it's really fun that the Collector has a bunch of super overpowered inherent magic because of what they are and then on top of that he also knows a bunch of other kinds of magic that he can use to get around Titan immunity (at least in the case of a baby Titan who still lacks power and skill) or teach to other people. I love this overpowered little brat.
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