#i can't get over the two beetles screwing

[fireintheimpala]

That Early 70's McLennon cunt energy

John 1970, Plastic Ono Band, Well, Well, Well:

Well, well, well, Oh well. Well, well, well, Oh well. I took my loved one out to dinner [...] She looked so beautiful, I could eat her. Well, well, well, Oh well. Well, well, well, Oh well. I took my loved one to the big field...

Paul 1971, RAM, Long Haired Lady + Eat at Home:

Well, well, well, well, well Do you love me like you know you ought to do? Well, well, well, well, well Or is this the only thing you want me for? Well, [paraphrase] I have a very sexy lady now also, I love her sooo much. And I definitely do eat her...at home. Here's some on point iconography for you, you jackass, and I don't want to hear another word about what happened in that field.

[bestworstcase]

If the Silver Eyes are more aligned with Death/The Void than Light, then is it possible that what they affect could be substantially broader than just Grimm? Death/The Void comes for all, Human, Grimm, Faunus and in a sense Gods alike, and the power of the Silver Eyes might relate to that.

In that sense, Cinder isn't just getting hurt because she's part-Grimm, it's because Ruby explicitly wants to use the Silver Eyes to HARM her, and the Silver Eyes' power is tied to this desire to harm or protect, and how much it damages the target is affected as a result. Thus, any subsequent uses after V3 have been less effective because Cinder is not only getting more resilient/more guarded against it, but also because Ruby's motives have changed from harming Cinder to trying to keep Cinder away from her loved ones.

The reason why Ruby can't figure this out yet is because she's still struggling with her own faulty understanding of the Silver Eyes due to messy information and her own inner psychological issues screwing up her ability to master them.

ough i talk about this periodically so here is some background reading: pattern theory (tangential, this is about death in remnant generally) + some observations on the beacon tower glare. i have some older posts pertaining specifically to cinder and the glare too but i don’t have have the energy to go looking for them rn. anyway!

my theory is that it isn’t related to anything ruby thinks or feels or wants – but rather, cinder’s vulnerability to the glare is directly connected to her killing people.

first observation: cinder uses her right hand to summon the grimm beetle, and if any residual grimm remains inside her body afterward, it makes the most sense for it to stay in her right arm, yes? or at least her right side. but the first glare destroys her left arm and her left eye.

second observation: while ice queendom is an ancillary text, not necessarily canonical, i think it is worth noting that ruby’s glare destroys one of the nightmares infesting weiss, while both she and the grimm are literally inside weiss’s head, and weiss of course does not come to any harm. this tracks with maria’s assertion that the glare only harms grimm. the actual question with regard to cinder is why did the glare burn her human flesh?, because ‘she had parts of a grimm inside her’ isn’t actually an explanation.

we have never, ever seen a glare harm somebody who happened to be touching, or close to, a grimm in any other context. if cinder had something grimm inside her body and the glare destroyed that, there is no reason to think that this would hurt cinder. it would just remove the grimm, leaving her unharmed.

(sidebar: this is why nobody in salem’s inner circle, including cinder, has brought up “grimm” as a possible explanation. the fanon that cinder either 1. doesn’t know the glare hurts grimm even though the rest of her colleagues are clearly informed about silver eyes and openly discuss it in front of her, or 2. somehow hasn’t put two and two together to work out that her grimm parts are vulnerable to the magical power that destroys grimm, is nonsense. nobody in salem’s employ is confused about the glare hurting grimm, the question is how and why it hurt cinder.)

third observation: when cinder killed amber, claiming the other half of the fall maiden, her left eye is the one that ‘received’ the flames (her right eye having lit up when she took the first half). minutes later, she uses her left hand to kill pyrrha. symbolically, at least, the glare takes from her 1. her victory in killing amber (the eye) and 2. the hand with which she murdered pyrrha, ruby’s friend.

i think that this goes beyond mere symbolism – i think this is also what happens in the literal sense at the top of beacon tower. the glare taps into the liminal boundary between life and death, and in that moment cinder was (as pyrrha’s killer, and amber’s killer, and all three of them having been linked through this tug-of-war over the fall maiden) entangled with that boundary, so the glare burned her.

(i think this is also why salem – working with very limited information about what happened – believes that becoming the maiden is what left cinder vulnerable: she’s not referring to the magic but rather to the act of killing necessary to become the maiden. salem is unlikely to know the exact sequence of events leading up to the glare and cinder frankly may not have even mentioned killing pyrrha at all; we know that cinder was cagey about whether she did or didn’t kill ozpin, so there is every possibility that salem said “it’s because of the maiden” while under the impression that the girl cinder killed right before ruby struck her was the maiden.)

this also tracks, i think, with what we see with subsequent glares. the partial one at haven causes what seems to be a lot of pain in cinder’s grimm arm, but doesn’t harm cinder herself. (also jaune, who is openly death-seeking at that point in time, flinches from the light—he’s the only one who does, aside from cinder.)

in 7.13 cinder mows through a lot of soldiers to get to fria’s room, but it isn’t clear that she kills any of them (as combatants these people would be aura-trained, and cinder was in a hurry; it’s probable that she just plowed through and left them dazed / injured / aura-broken behind her, bowling pins style) – and then she doesn’t kill winter or penny or fria before ruby blasts her, and again we see that it causes pain in her grimm arm without harming cinder herself.

i think there is some grounds for thinking that the glare itself can also be resisted – the fact that cinder’s grimm arm hurts but isn’t destroyed is suggestive. given the nature of the glare itself, empowered by “the desire to preserve life,” my thinking here is that the defense against it is self-preservation – cinder (i believe) chose that arm and has embraced it as part of herself, and so whenever she’s hit by one of ruby’s glares what happens to the arm is a contest between ruby’s desire to protect her friends from cinder vs cinder’s desire to protect herself (including her arm) from ruby.

[clay-cuttlefish]

We're getting back into the good shit now. Vic's back in action, Renee is written by Greg Rucka for the first time, Helena and Vic meet, Blue Beetle is here...

Azrael Plus The Question

Vic's been playing poker. Lots of opportunities to wander around and get into trouble while keeping him retired from heroing and from journalism, it works for him.

Oops All Daddy Issues.

I like how low key this is, despite everything. Vic and Jean-Paul are weird dudes with a lot of problems and that's on full display.

Green Lantern #81

Another cameo that's only notable because I have no clue why Vic would be here. He has literally never met Hal Jordan, how did he get an invite. He's even standing off to the back instead of sitting with everyone else.

The Question Returns

The river emissary is conceptually a lot better than any of the other supernatural takes on the Question. The idea that Vic's death in the river would make his conscience literally haunt him is interesting, and it being questionably supernatural is more to my taste. Making the river a magical harmonica-playing old black man was not a great choice though.

Vic describing Tot as "an ex-father figure" makes me want to implode.

"these auditory hallucinations are getting on my nerves" BIG mood.

Vic is a mess. He can't go home, he can't stay away, he's shifted from Vic Sage the hard-hitting journalist to Vic Sage the laid-back poker player but he hasn't been able to change the Question. This is why he takes up so much space in my brain.

Even after he left he still held on to his love for Myra and Hub City, and this is where he can't do it anymore. He will never see her again. Godddddddd.

Steel #38

I hadn't read this one before, and I'm glad I'm reading it now, because it's great. I gotta get into Steel eventually.

Vic declares himself teammates with John and then immediately splits up and gets his shit wrecked. Maybe let the guy with power armor protect you next time.

This wandering gambler era is fun, I wish it had lasted a little longer. There are so many interesting places Vic could pop up with poker incidents as an excuse, it's the perfect way to keep him around without him having anything specific going on.

A World for Burning (Tec #714-715)

Calling her a supporting character is maybe a stretch but she gets to talk to Martian Manhunter so I'm counting it.

A fun little mystery story.

Cataclysm

Vic interlude is over, time for events.

I like Cataclysm quite a bit. It's heavy on the cop shit and some of the issues are just not good, but I think the earthquake makes for a better citywide event than any of the "oh no it's the Joker" ones, and everyone involved really gets to shine.

Once again I am forced to admit I like when Cluemaster shows up. Steph saving her dad from Helena despite everything is a strong moment.

Random Encounters (Batman Chronicles #14)

OH NO. Ohhhh no. Strap in folks it's time for her to become a main character.

Renee talks to her brother about his guilt over killing when he was in the Navy, and she uses Two-Face's coin to make her point about randomness and how right and wrong aren't simple, which. Hhhhh.

Apparently she shot a guy who was trying to kill Two-Face, and got the coin in return.

Sorry but Renee flipping the coin and making decisions based on the outcome fucking annihilates me and I cannot BELIEVE I hadn't read this before now.

This isn't even a comic it's a short story. Eight pages of Rucka setting up the dominoes.

An Answer in the Rubble (Batman Chronicles #15)

VIC AND HELENA BABYYYY

Self-recognition through the other (annoying)

His anime hair???

I love them so much.

Road to No Man's Land

Sorry but the Bruce Wayne political drama is ridiculous even by my standards. Gotham would be the second-largest city in the US today, or one of the top 5 if the "7 million" is the city and surrounding area, you cannot tell me it would get totally cut off. Screwed by inadequate relief? Sure. Wiped off the map? Lol no.

Okay fine it's the devil. The devil did it. Comic books.

L.A.W.

We've been in Gotham long enough, time to go do Some Bullshit!

This is in continuity, but it ignores all of Vic's canon post-Charlton - he's a newscaster working with Nora from the Ditko run, Hub City is Ted's home city but not his, he's characterized pretty much how he was in Charlton and those few Blue Beetle crossovers post-Crisis... the other heroes seem a little more up-to-date but they're all still kind of janky.

Wow this does not do a good job making me care about any of these characters.

The plot is mostly racist and/or nonsense and most of it bounced right off my brain despite repeated readings.

Honestly I'm here for Ted more than Vic. He's going through it.

I do like the framing device of Vic writing his report in the final issue. The real treasure was the friends we made along the way.

[the-firebird69]

That's how you get over the slope issue. It's gonna be about three inches higher and it'll be at an angle but it does look cool and you can't tell it looks cooler almost than the real Porsche because it's angular the real Porsche is kind of flat like a jaguar. And then what you would end up doing is attaching the front bumper and fenders and wheel wells and so forth redoing the suspension and brakes just by replacing them it's all bolt up and he said he doesn't want to do that right away and we agree it just replaced the tires and rims and we give you the exact tire and rim with Where's the cat. And it works that way. And yeah there's some idiots in the neighborhood and there's steaming **** looking for trouble and they ran away when he went to the window. And they're playing in ****. Loss it is no big loss. We have several other changes and modifications that would take to become a Porsche 9/11. Once the panels are on and the hood in the trunk and yeah the hood would have to have an intake manifold it would look nice you need to repair the interior yes we would have an interior package new seats and new dashboard cover and it would have a place for a couple more instruments and you have to fish them in there it's not easy and a new care shifter and console all of that takes about four days to do in a professional shop it would take one day. Boy is it fun to do and it is a great experience changing the car into a high performance vehicle that can go very very fast. As we said the performance changes

.Volkswagen beetle hundred and thirty horse original SPECS

TOP SPEED 135MPH

0-60 4.6 SECONDS

QUARTER MILE 10 SECONDS

Volkswagon beetle original hp 130 after installing the full 911 standard kit

TOP SPEED 280MPH

0-60 3.5 seconds

Quarter mile 6.9 seconds

and the handling is superb. I will make the kit and start distributing it online. Can't seem to figure out where things come from anyways but this is going to be marked clearly as they want us to make stuff in the Midwest in the middle areas of mine in Germany. And it can be ordered from anywhere and it's lightweight the whole kit weighs about£800 and keep in mind that you are taking off about 1300 pounds and you're saving yourself £500 of excess weight from the interior seats and other that wait a lot to the panels which wait too much. You don't need any enclosure it has one in it the panels are reinforced it's not metal it does OK in an accident and it actually has a rating that is only one point lower than the metal. We might put framework on it to bring that up and we'll check but this is the lower price to kit. And he said to keep the suspension and some other things parts of the dash to make it easier and simpler and less expensive and not a nightmare. Not going to take your wiring apart at all you're adding two gages and the console you unscrew it and unscrew the handle and then you put on the new one and you screw the handle back on. Really easy. He likes it and wants to do it. She does too and will probably have to do it without him sort of and he gets a lot of Flack for it. the price of the kid

the price of the kit

Price The full kit as mentioned above it is the lower lower level 9/11 it does not include the suspension springs and shocks and control arms and so forth and the interior is the basic Porsche 9/11. Starting price would be $3200 and it includes the paint already applied to your panels and everything exposed it includes the rear panel system in the glass and the clues that you need to use it's glue and the clips and attachment hardware and their bolts and they stay on because they're locked tighted and it includes lock tight and it includes two extra gages and the dashboard cover the new seats in the whole interior to match every doodad and the gear shifter and case everything you need to do this upgrade and it is a very serious more or less a wide body kit meaning that the tires and rims will be much wider and high performance than your original tires and rooms that won't look like a beetle at all the ones that come with the beetle are about 6 1/2 inches wide and with the kid they're about nine inches wide front and rear and it is a huge difference and they do protrude out and there is a wheel well that extends out and you'll see a little line and that's it and inside on the other vehicle the the Volkswagen some of the Porsches used to have it and it's not a big deal you can take it to a body shop and they can blend it in it costs a lot of money and plastic to metal never works out too good we don't suggest it some people put a bead of**** the color of the car and actually we're gonna include that is finding the color is impossible and it will look like a brand new vehicle and we give you instructions on how to place it in there usually it's not done correctly but if you do it right you can't see there's a seam. And we use an adhesive so it stays in put and it's washable and it doesn't attract dirt. We're going ahead and we're gonna produce this kit very shortly

Black God and Goddess Zues side

Black God and Goddess Hera side and we both do it both pairs. and one is vw and one p orche and hahaha caought on ok and we were first nd ok lol we see it she is always after but ok.

Olympus

we had the cr up first and you two helped. he did it mostly and then too

Black goddess Hera side

good

Black God Hera Side

we rule now

Thor Freya

need it now

Olympus we put in orders to them to produce them now

[frickfrackiwastakingabath]

@itty-bitty-rainbow 's au where Purpled is a tiny alien crashed into Las Nevadas.

Tws: really just a bunch of fearplay, also threat of injury

...

First Day on the Planet, Already Getting Blackmailed

...

Purpled already hated this fucking planet. Why was it sand? Why was it cold? The whole thing better not be like this.

And as long as it wasn't some wierd megaflora, this planet was inhabited. Some sort of writing was on a giant glowing sign, looking like... SMP letters.

Oh FUCK no.

(The ONE language class Purpled failed-)

Purpled could read and understand the "latin" letters, understand maybe one or two of their spoken languages, a couple common signs and gestures, but he was screwed anyway since he couldn't SPEAK any of them.

Oh yeah, not to mention almost all the sentient life forms on this planet would be fifty times bigger than him.

Purpled looked at his ship, only salvaging one ray gun. The rest is useless without parts from his own planet. Maybe he could improvise with some of this planet's technology...

Perfect timing, someone was walking over, probably to inspect what just landed next to their house. They had an orange and hairy looking fur with a black jacket over some suspenders. And gosh... his teachers weren't kidding when they said SMP natives would be big, Purpled was probably only the size of this one's largest finger appendage.

"Woah!" The person exclaimed, seeing the wreckage. Purpled was hidden behind his ship, hoping the person leaves it alone. "I thought flying was banned... I suppose he's in jail... but what is it... Quackity will want to hear about this..."

Finally picking a train of thought to follow, they took out some sort of communication device and started messaging "Quackity". The person paused for a second, before leaning his hand in to poke at Purpled's ship.

Oh no.

In a panic, Purpled reached his arm around to shoot at the person, their arm repulsing back as they hissed. It didn't look like much damage, it was probably more startling than anything for them, because they reached out again for the ship.

This time when Purpled put his arm out to shoot again, he yelped as it was grabbed and he was pulled out of his hiding spot. As he was pulled up and hung in front of their face, Purpled noticed the person looked more like something on the fauna section of the SMP info.

Purpled didn't wait a second before shooting them in the nose. They yelped, dropping Purpled onto their shirt, climb in up the soft material up to the things face, holding his ray gun at what Purpled thinks are their eyes. Hopefully the person took some inter galactic language classes like he did.

"WHERE AM I?!" Purpled hissed in his own tongue. "TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER."

"Uh..." it didn't look like that person got any of that. Because instead of doing what he said, the person quickly moved their other hand to crush the Ray gun between their fingers, way too fast for Purpled to react. Right, why would the person be scared of him when he was the size of an SMP arthropod. "Let's try this again. What's your name?"

He flinched at how loud the voice was. Luckly there were no special things to do with names in this language. "Purpled..."

"Strange, but I've heard weirder," the person shrugged. "Well, I'm Fundy, and... right! Quackity!"

Fundy held Purpled tightly as he walked through the sand. He grabbed his ship As well, holding it like a frisbee. As much as Purpled fought and wiggled and kicked, he couldn't get out. After a bit- gosh they were far out from the main area- Fundy lifted him up again and inspected him like a cooler than average beetle.

With his other hand, he used his sharp claws to poke at Purpled. Eventually, when Fundy was about to touch his antenna, Purpled hissed and tried even harder to get out of his grasp. He dug his nails into Fundy's palm and leaned over to bite his hand.

"Gah!" Fundy jumped, switching Purpled to his other hand. "Alright... geez..."

Purpled glared up, accepting that he can't really do anything. He'll just have to do something later as soon as this bitch lets him go.

Eventually they got to a big gate and Fundy opened it, revealing a giant city. Even in the sun the lights glared at Purpled's eyes, and loud noises struck his ears. Let's just say his home planet was a lot more quieter than this.

"Fundy from L'Manburg!" Something green called over from across a road.

"Please don't call me that..." Fundy chuckled as he squeezed Purpled slightly tighter. Probably a nervous habit, so "L'Manburg" must have been a touch subject. The green thing ran over with a hideous wet and sloppy sound.

"Dap me up!" The green thing smiled, Fundy high fived it with a wince. "What are you doing walking around with a Hypixlian?"

Purpled's eyes went wide, all four of them. No way this wierd idiot green thing knew what he was. He shouted, this was his only chance.

"HEY!" Purpled took his chance to be threatening rather than ask for help like a normal person. "Let me go right FUCKING now or I'll blow this place to bits, starting with Fundy and you're next, green. LET ME GO."

"Wow!" The green guy grinned. Not particularly maliciously, but Purpled was ashamed to say he was scared of this guy's volume. "He's threatening our lives!"

"You can understand him?!" Fundy looked at the green guy, bewildered. "Can you come with me to see Quackity then?"

"Of course, Fundy from Manburg!"

"Even worse."

The three went up some wierd water elevator to some needle looking structure. Once at the top, there was a person looking down on the other buildings, this must be Quackity. He wore the same suspenders as the other two, small yellow feathers stuck in the seems.

"I told you two-" Quackity turned around as he heard Slime and Fundy approach, but was stunned to silence when he saw Purpled. "Okay, what the fuck."

"I will end you all." Purpled sighed, Already done with this. He glared at Fundy, who shrunk under his gaze, as he was transferred into Quackity's hand.

"Wow, he sounds like the ghost under the casino!" Slime laughed, leaning up close to Purpled. He smelled horrid.

Quackity looked over at him. "What?!"

"What?" Slime smiled.

"I'll deal with that later," Quackity rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Fundy, what is this?"

"I found him by the Las Nevadas sign," Fundy jumped at the sound of his name. "Slime called him a 'Hypixlian'?"

"Slime knows what this is?" Quackity raised his eyebrows. He motioned over to Purpled's ship that Fundy still had in his hand. "Okay... leave that on my desk, Fundy?"

Fundy pursed his lips. "But-"

"Fundy," there was a certain air to Quackity's voice that made Purpled shiver, and it didn't help that he was in the guy's hand. "Leave the room please."

Fundy looked around the room nervously. From Slime's too happy smile, to Quackity's straight and pointed expression. Eventually his eyes landed back on Purpled, his eyes looked like they were apologizing. He sent the ship down on the desk and went down the elevator.

"Where were we," Quackity smiled downward ad he placed Purpled on his desk. "Ah yes! What is it again?"

"Hypixlian," Slime blinked, somehow his glasses closed with his eyes. "Fierce warriors with fiercer determination! However-"

Slime booped atop his head, making his hair sopping wet. GOSH Purpled wanted his ray gun right now. Even if it didn't do much, he wanted to wipe Slime's stupid smile off his stupid face. Quackity's too, while he was at it.

"They are very small." Slime leaned his face in close to Purpled, uncomfortably so.

"Excuse me," Purpled backed away from Slime, but he followed. "But I'm afraid there s been a misunderstanding. Now, if you give me back my ship I can go on my way and you'll never have to see me again. So-"

"What is he saying?" Quackity rolled his eyes at Slime, using his arms to block him from Purpled. But at the same time, also kept Purpled where he could see him.

"He wants his ship back," Slime tilted his head down at Purpled. "So he can leave."

There was a moment where no one talked. A LONG moment. But soon enough Quackity's eyes lit up as he grinned, picking up the ship loosely. Purpled's heart raced.

"Hey!" Purpled shouted, kicking Quackity's arms. "Careful with that!"

"Careful with that-" Slime nodded, echoing, almost looking sympathetic towards the alien.

"This ship?" Quackity smiled. His teeth looked too sharp for any sort of avian, what Purpled assumed he was.

"Stop it!" Purpled gasped as Quackity started messing with it, cracking the main window and denting it in a few places. Not unfixable damages, certainly annoying ones, but it didn't look like he was stopping.

"So how about this," Quackity put down the ship, but his arms were still blocking Purpled's veiw of everything that wasn't Quackity. "I won't destroy your ship if you work for me."

"Bullshit."

"He says bullshit!" Slime piped up, he doesn't seem aware anymore of how dire the situation is for Purpled.

"Okay then, I'll take something else!" Quackity snarled, harshly grabbing Purpled. He pinched his antenna together, slowly pulling them upward. Purpled could feel them stretching out, they might snap off. Which would be bad because his antenna had direct ties to his motor skills, sight, and smell.

"Alright!"

"He agreed!" Slime exclaimed. Thank fuck, his antenna flopped down as Quackity released them, his vision blurry.

"I'm glad," Quackity smiled, opening a drawer and placing Purpled inside. "Pleasure doing business, Hypixlian."

"Rot. In. Hell."

Luckily Slime didn't catch that last part to translate. Purpled felt the ground under him shake as the drawer slammed shur, leaving him in darkness.

[dccomicrants]

Booster Gold

Content Warnings: N/A

Summary: A brief character history and analysis of Booster Gold, the greatest hero you've never heard of.

Comic Issues: Booster Gold (2007-2011)

Booster Gold, legal name Michael Jon Carter, is the greatest hero you've never heard of. To a majority of the Justice League, he's not taken very seriously as a hero and it's easy to see why. The man has had more advertising deals than most heroes, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Booster was born in the 25th century Gotham City. He has a younger twin sister Michelle Carter. His father left his mother when he was young to follow his one true love, gambling. Booster ended up getting a sports scholarship to Gotham University where he played football. When his mother needed rather expensive medical treatment, he began to gamble on his own games. He got caught and was forced to quit. He ended up working in a museum where he ended up stealing the items for his Booster Gold costume. He traveled back in time to the 21st century to reinvent himself as a superhero, determined to become a member of the greatest Justice League of all time.

He ended up joining Justice League International, a branch of the Justice League after hiring the Royal Flush gang to make an impressive interview. While he served as a member of the JLI, he met Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, his best friend. While the two pulled several pranks on the rest of the league, they both knew how to be serious. A post about Ted and Booster to come later.

Booster has a rather public persona as either a Jackass or an idiot depending on how good his reputation is starting to look and how he needs to knock it back. The reason for this is because Booster has the very important job of protecting the time stream, and unfortunately, history has decided that he was an idiot. The few people who happen to know better are Rani, Rip, Michelle, Ted, Bruce, and Dick.

A few things astute readers have already noticed, I haven't referred to Booster as Michael or Mikey. While a handful of people have called him that- his adopted daughter Rani and his sister. Very few people tend to call Booster by his first name whether he's in or out of costume. The few exceptions are for when he's getting lectured. Booster was actually a nickname he got when he was still playing football, when he had initially introduced himself, he meant to call himself "Gold Star" but screwed up, leading to him being "Booster Gold" instead. When Michelle comes back to the past with him, she takes on the name "Goldstar" instead.

Booster has attempted to go back to change solid time several times, this has lead to him being held prisoner by the Joker and tortured when he tried to prevent the Joker from shooting Barbara Gordon. Bruce ended up getting the pictures from that night which lead to him respecting Booster for what he does. He also tried to save Ted Kord which lead to a timeline where O.M.A.C.s and Maxwell Lord took over the world. He uses his cover as a 'fool' to protect his identity, and he succeeds. History only remembers him as a fool, but his attempts also earn him the respect of Dick Grayson as well as Bruce Wayne.

The first incident was a lesson from Rip Hunter, a time master who uses an alias to obfuscate his timeline who just so happens to be Booster's son. The second incident was a result of Booster getting manipulated by the Time Stealers because he wanted to believe Ted could be saved so badly.

Booster has often been at odds with his son when it comes to how the time line could best be protected, but an older Booster understands exactly why things had to happen the way they did. It's not a situation Rip enjoys finding himself in, but in order to preserve the time line, his father can't know, at least not at the ages that Rip has seen him so far.

In spite of Booster's externally cheerful disposition, he hides a lot of grief and anger, likely compounded by the fact that he can't really talk about it with anyone. Protecting the time line means he's had to ensure that Coast City is destroyed or that Ted Kord dies, or that 30th century Daxam is destroyed by Darkseid. All of those things have to happen, and it takes a toll on him, even if he tries not to show it.

Booster gets a lot of flack from all sorts of heroes for being an idiot, an imagine he has carefully crafted. But I think for right now, it's worth acknowledging that he is the greatest hero most heroes in the DC universe would never hear of.

[kaaytea]

Getting rid of bugs for you

⤷Includes: Tsukishima, Iwazumi, Tanaka

Warnings: beetles, moths, spiders, Tsukki is a meanie :(, this is kinda crack hcs

A/n: welcome back to me projecting my worst fears into headcanons :')) part two is here!!

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Tsukishima

He's so mean about it bro

Bugs don't bother him toooo much, he just thinks they're nasty

Always finds a way to tease you about needing him to get rid of bugs for you

Anyways

So you are straight vibin~ in the bathroom getting ready for the day, music blasting when suddenly you see something fluttering about behind you in the mirror

It's a moth a BIG, FUZZY, NASTY ASS MOTH

GETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGE-

you sLaM the bathroom door shut and zoOM to find your knight in thick prescription glasses 🥰

He just kinda looks at you as you explain how serious the situation is and how you nEED him to help you

Sighs very dramatically and follows you to the bathroom

He's pure evil good luck soldier 😔

"You're being dramatic there's no moth in here."

"What?! Yes it is, it's totally in there, it's fucking huge you can't miss it."

You go in to point out where it is but this snake has the audacity to slip out the door and LOCK YOU IN THE BATHROOM WITH THE ENEMY!!

"TSUKKI PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR, THIS ISNT FUNNY!"

"Huh? Sorry I can't hear you, you know the walls are thick."

"Please Kei....let me out, I feel like I'm gonna cry and throw up at the same time... please"

Dammit now he feels bad

You just sound so small and terrified :(

Regret and guilt is all he feels

He opens the door and you dart out of there, he takes care of the moth ( you definitely weren't kidding that thing was nasty) and then pulls you into a hug and presses a kiss to your forehead

"I'm sorry...I took it too far."

"It's ok, just never do that again."

Iwazumi

Why does he love bugs so much?

Like genuinely concerned for his health

Bugs don't phase him at all, boys a veteran beetle catcher so he knows what he's doing

never ever kills the bugs, he always safely catches them in a cup and sets them free in the garden

You had the kitchen windows open to let some fresh air in while you made some cookies, you weren't paying attention to your surroundings so you completely missed the, very large, rhino beetle bop his way into your kitchen

You went to grab the rubber spatula on the counter behind you when you finally noticed him chilling on yOuR spatula

SCREAMING, CHAOS, FIRE ALARM, TORNADO SIREN, THOES RED FLASHING LIGHTS ALL GOING OFF AT ONCE IN YOUR BRAIN

It was a stare down, just you and this beetle

Yeah screw this you need to bring in the big guns

"Hajime!! Help! Hurry!"

He rAN into the kitchen bc he thought you hurt yourself

Then he saw you sitting on the island counter cowering in fear pointing at the lil beetle guy

He just :)) you're so cute 💖

He goes over and gently picks the beetle up

"Ew ew! Don't pick it up with your hands!!"

"......how else do you expect me to pick it up?"

"NoT wItH yOur hAnDs?! Kill it, get it out, I don't wanna see it anymore."

"I'm not gonna kill a helpless beetle. They're not that bad babe.....I actually think they're kinda cute."

"I'm disowning you."

Tanaka

He's trying his best babes...he really is

Wants to look really brave in front of you but....

He can't handle bugs well

Saeko is a great sister but there have been a few..uh instances

(Am I implying that she has purposely dropped spiders onto Ryuu as kids? Yes, yes I am)

So here you are, sitting in ya bedroom scrolling through your phone

And guess what decided to visit you

Spider

Big spider

VERY BIG SPIDER

BIG SPIDER THAT IS STRAIGHT SPEED CRAWLING ABOVE YOU ON THE CELLING

yeah no

"RYUU! HOLY JESUS, RYUU GET IN HERE!"

"What's wrong?"

"SPiDEr! SPEED SPIDER! BIG SPEED SPIDER!!"

"........"

"I hate it here."

It's fine, he's fine spiders don't bother him at all... Ha ha

Knees pads: CHECK!

Oven mitts: CHECK!

Fly swatter: CHECK!

Bug spray: CHECK!

Long sleeves, pants, and a beanie: CHECK!

it's go time, he may hate spiders but right now his baby is counting on him and he never lets you down >:)

You hide in the living room while he takes care of the demon

You hear these things in order: a loud thud, vIcioUs spraying, then silence

Huh, you honestly didn't expect him to do it

........

Cue loud, high pitched screech and Tanaka flying out of the bed room slamming the door close

"We have to burn the house down now."

"......I'm calling Saeko to come save us."

[fyeah-anya-corazon]

To complement my previous post, is that reactionary aspect of Sony that has me worry over the Blue Beetle movie.

For those who don't know, Warner/DC commissioned a script for a potential Blue Beetle movie, starring Jaime Reyes. Now, WB has the tendency of commissioning scripts but never really moving forward with them, since they're a big company with many franchises that not only focuses on their DC properties, so who knows if this is actually gonna get done. But let's say it does, and a BB movie is released somewhere in the next 5 years.

Now, I really like Jaime, and I'm genuinely excited of a movie, but I can't felt but feeling that Anya is screwed if BB makes it to the big screen before her.

That would be two movies starring bug-themed Latinos who have a blue armor as their power.

It's hard not to compare them at first glance. So let's say the BB movie is a success, it could go two ways. First, Sony, being reactionary, immediately green lights a Araña movie. Problem is, to mainstream audiences she would look like a rip-off of BB. The second Sony actually realizing this before time and ultimately shelving Araña to prevent being seen as copy cats.

Obviously anyone who knows about them knows that both are very different, and the fact that both have similarities is coincidental and that Anya predates Jaime by two years. But to a mainstream audience, whoever makes it to the big screen first, that would be who they put the standard to and judge who comes next afterwards.

The solution could be potentially redesigning Araña's carapace and play more the mystical mythos of her origin. The other is simply going with her Spider-Girl powers and drop the carapace.

Either way, whoever comes first, will be compared because God forbid us that two latinx characters have similar powers.