#it'll be a Commitment

[my-obsession-academia]

I have extra respect for everyone who read Wandering Home because these days I kind of want to read it, since it's been a while and there's a lot I probably forgot

Except the size is soooooo intimidating, it's stopping me

[benevolenterrancy]

finally in the process of reading the Guanyin Temple scene and holy shit if WWX isn't the protagonist of all time. We're in the Big Final Confrontation and so far my man has done fuck all except cuddle in LWJ's lap while everyone else is losing their shit and when he DOES finally do something he summons an army of naked, writhing, moaning sex corpses that even his allies just desperately wish Were Not There. stupendous, no notes

[v-writes]

wip wednesday

Captured King snippet 2

part 1 part 3 ao3

Zatanna's wards had held Phantom unconscious for transport to the Watchtower, but would grow less reliable over time. The ghost shield the Justice League had been provided appeared to work during transport to the Watchtower, having had to be turned off and of again to pass through, but according to the GIW Phantom had a history of being able to get around them.

More reliable would be the custom restraints Zatanna had made, Phantom had stared at them in shock upon waking in the cell, before placing his shaking hands on the table he was cuffed to. Four custom sigils, two on each wrist, chained to a magically reinforced interrogation table.

Clark turned as Diana and Zatanna entered the observation room, each with a coffee in hand, "didn't bring a cup for Batman and I? I'm hurt."

"I know you are, I was there. And I hear the Medical Bay has its own private cafeteria and coffee pot."

Zatanna raises a perfect eyebrow, "do I look like a coffee gopher to you?"

"Ah, that's-"

Diana and Zatanna make eye contact, before laughing together, Diana leans pointedly on Clark as Zatanna asks "any updates?"

"Nothing solid," Clark sighs, "we thought we'd try talking to him individually to see if that changed how he responded, if he would be more open if he weren't outnumbered, but he just ignores us both, he'll look up to see who entered then go back to staring at his chains."

"That's not entirely true." Batman says.

"How could I forget, he flinched when I entered but not when Batman entered, anything else you want to add about his body language?"

"Hn."

Diana nods, "it makes sense, he has been in several fights with you, but not with Batman."

"Frankly I'm stunned the two of you thought could pull off unintimidating considering the past fights and your whole deal," she gestures to all of Batman, winking, "no offense Batsy."

"Hn."

"You think we should send in the one who put that bruise around his neck? Or the one who is responsible for his custom restraints?"

"Point taken. But I was actually thinking the Captain? You know, the one you used to get the drop on him? I saw the recordings, send him in as Billy and Phantom will talk."

"We aren't contacting Captain Marvel until school releases."

"Right. Middle of the night? No problem, what teenager has a sleep schedule anyway? But god forbid we interrupt Biology."

"It would be Language Arts at the moment actually."

"Why do you know that? Are you counting down until the school day ends?"

"Hn."

"Of course you are."

"You know," Wonder Woman starts carefully, "his cooperation with Captain Marvel isn't a guarantee, but there is another way."

Superman shrugs her arm off of his shoulder, "Wonder Woman-"

"Are we not in agreement about wanting information that does not come from the GIW themselves?" She gestures, lasso in hand, towards Phantom through the one way glass. "There information sits."

"Yes, but Diana-"

"It wouldn't be admissible in court."

Diana looks between Superman and Batman for a moment before sighing. "Politics."

"This isn't an alien invasion," Superman placates, "we need to be cognizant of how we handle this, not just that we handle this."

"I know, I know, as I said, 'politics'. That he can, or rather, has flattened a building with a yell and gone toe to toe with us makes him our business, but we aren't the USA's dogs"

The door to the observation room opens, Batman's eyes narrowing behind the cowl, "you're supposed to be in class."

"You thought I would listen to you and go to school after last night? How are you surprised, don't you have kids?" Captain Marvel does not even attempt to look ashamed.

"He really has no excuse, they don't listen to him either," Red Hood, sans signature red helmet enters, a domino in its place, and a manila folder in his hand.

Red Robin follows him, "he doesn't even have custody of me, but don't tell him that, he likes to pretend."

"This is a restricted access area, associated with a classified investigation."

"Nope." Red Hood steps to stand in front of Batman, taking the lead of the new trio to enter.

"Excuse me?"

"It's our investigation now old man."

"That's not your call to make-"

The computer terminal activates, lighting the room in green Oracle's symbol takes over the screen, static clicks over the Justice League communicators and computer speakers before Oracle's voice, computerized and clear comes over them.

"And he didn't make it, I did. And we've been busy."

Captain Marvel smiles, stubbornly bright, "I emailed her after you tried to bench me. You would not believe the stuff you can find on the GIW when you don't respect the government. Here's a flash drive from Oracle, I've had a lot of fun, and come to the conclusion that she's terrifying."

Red Robin snickers, "did you need the wisdom of Solomon to figure that out?"

"O, the Watchtower servers are on a closed network."

"I thought we were past you underestimating me? The drive is more for general JL use, I've already uploaded copies to our servers."

"I'm referring to the guests you gave Zeta access to."

"Oh that wasn't me."

"That was my idea," Captain marvel scratches the back of his head bashfully, not making eye contact with Batman, but not apologizing either.

"Without prior notice or Trinity approval?"

Diana takes a long sip of her coffee. "While I am neither 'the World's Greatest Detective', nor an investigative journalist, I have picked up how to best get around certain 'politics' issues. For what it's worth, Oracle was already on the case when I reached out to her."

"Speaking of ways around politics," Red hood steps towards the door to the interrogation room, Superman starts to move towards him, but stops when Wonder Woman puts a hand on his shoulder. "While you lot have been keeping your hands clean, we've been doing actual work-"

"In fact Oracle is still working."

"Yes, thank you O, you're amazing and their servers are weird, Red Robin can handle filling you lot in, I'm gonna go get Phantom to open up."

Red Hood slams the door open, Phantom's gaze snaps to him, eyes narrowing, "yo Danny!"

[lunarriviera]

Oh my god!

Is this picture from episode 30?

You said "NO". What did you mean by that?

I'm going crazy until next week…! 😢😒 I'm really curious!

i am ALSO going crazy until next week so that makes, like, ten of us. (although tbh one of the best things about jitd finally airing is that so many of you will now play tuoys with me!! when for like 2 years i’ve just been sitting alone in a corner with my zhoudu dolls, crying. now there’s gifsets and meta and ASKS, i’m so FED???)

okay anyway so what did i MEAN BY THAT, look at his FACE, in this particular moment he is very much NOT OKAY—

the only good thing about ep 30 is that, once we survive it, we can fully appreciate how both mains, who have honestly already handed in some of the best acting i've seen outside of film, are about to pull out ALL THE STOPS. just go HAM on this. just completely BATSHIT.

well no there is one other good thing too—which is how priest so loved her only begotten son fei du that after she finishes torturing him, she gives him EVERYTHING, to make up for what she put him through during 6 books. she gives him not one, but TWO cats (i doubt the drama will have time for this, but fei qian is real). she gives him new PARENTS. she gives him the finest straight friend, plus also LU JIA. and she gives him her best, her CHOICEST gong, the one whose name she (usually) remembers, the one who wears an apron when he cooks, the one who fusses at fei du to quit working and go to bed on time and nags him to stop drinking wine and coffee and then bends him tenderly in half all night long.

…for the rest of his life.

because zhoudu are forever and i think that's beautiful. :')

[sforzesco]

WINTER BREAK

much like marriage matches, the stakes are pretty high for getting into the cardinalate. you might be a little on edge if the brother that's been earmarked for the role isn't really jazzed about the whole thing, in addition to trying to convince the pope that it's in his best interest to let this happen.

A Renaissance Court: Milan Under Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Gregory Lubkin

eventually I'm going to get the whole cast of sforza siblings drawn. there's just. a lot of them.

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

[yes-no-maybe-soo]

You know what this reminds me of?

That's right.

What else but the cause of my PTSD, Beyond Cloudfall?

Moments before, MC had cursed Sylus' soul.

In contrast, in Valleydream Bloom it's almost as though Sylus is blessing his and MC's relationship when he kisses the petal.

Love me the constant callbacks and parallels to Sylus' myth in his subsequent memories. Hello delicious pain my old friend.

[pkmn-redirect]

*sigh*

Sorry folks- no update this week. Things at the day-job have gotten.... busy. Like, 60+ hour work weeks busy. -_- I'm kind of dying.

The next page is *almost* done, but I have had so little energy between 11 hour shifts that it's just not happening this week. I need to do some hard thinking about the update schedule on this, especially if my job keeps doing.... this.

[glasscoral]

[Hundred Line pre-release speculation, part 200000. It's still not out of my system.]

When I first saw the 'massacre' and 'inherently evil' writing on Eito's clothing, I wasn't sure what to make of it--was it just them warning us about a twist that he was going to be 'darker' than he immediately appeared, or going to betray us?

But none of it ever felt quite right to me, especially with the other quotes on his clothing apparently being "the world is beautiful" and "i like beautiful things" (thank you to this person on twitter for the transcription!) until I saw...his skills.

And then it all clicked for me. I don't think the 'massacre' and 'inherently evil' is referring to him, I think it's referring to what he's going to do to whatever (or whoever) he considers 'inherently evil'.

There are a lot of characters in this game that enjoy having to fight because they get some kind of a thrill out of it, but...honestly, a character who doesn't murder out of some desire for personal gratification, but because he believes that it's justice, and that he and he alone is qualified to be the judge, jury, and executioner?

That'll be fun to see.

[seventeenlovesthree]

Man, Kakudou really must have been fond of his 02!winter designs - and nobody could blame him, because those are generally some of the best in the entirety of Adventure for the majority of all characters. However... I knew the colours seemed familiar, but it's really tough to think that Doc Jyou Kidou never changed either shirt or sweater vest or pants (in either colour and/or style) in like... 8 years.

[tiredandoptimistic]

If Cassandra Clare were to write a book of short stories like the Bane Chronicles about another character (I’m thinking an immortal character but it could be a mortal one too) which character would you most like to read about and why ?

Easy answer, because I've thought about this a lot! What I would want would be a series of short stories about the Circle, with each one focused on a different character in a different year. I am a huge fan of the Circle era, and I've always been disappointed that we never got The Secret Treasons. However, the more I thought about it the more I felt that a cohesive series focused on them wouldn't work as well, because the action and emotional high points of their story are spread across such a long span of time. That's why I think a short story collection would work so well, because it would give each character a moment in the spotlight and dive into an interesting era in their personal story without worrying about giving all of them interesting stuff at the same time. I've in fact thought about this so much that I planned out what I think each short story would be, so here's some screenshots of my ideas (shout-out to @jaybirdscoffee letting me ramble about the Circle in his DMs even though he has not read TSC).

So yeah! If I had to pick a single focal character then I'd probably want Valentine and have a short story about each Circle member that's grounded in his perspective and his relationship with them, but I think it would be more interesting to switch POVs and go beyond Valentine's experience.

Thanks for the ask!

[flightyalrighty]

Hi! Saw on the bottom of this week's page that there will be a gap because you'll be celebrating Passover. I just wanted to wish you a happy and meaningful Passover this year!

Thank you very much! 😊

[fantasmadelaciudad]

genuinely this is so stupid but i am so fucking anxious about that fucking hollywood bowl d20 show. they're going to kill my boy in front of hundreds of people.

[redo-rewind-if]

Hey everybody! Hope you've had a good week! 😊

Next Update (Chapter 5):

A Friendly Chat 😇: 95%

A Typical Workplace Meeting: 10%

Hold On, Who Invited You?!: 0%

Eavesdropping Made Easy: 0%

The World's Worst Date!: 5%

The first section is nearly done! Wooo! There was a small part I decided to skip over and come back to later, and, as such, I've already made headway on the Workplace Meeting section. All's going well so far!

In other news, I plan to resume posting snippets next week! Now I just need to decide what I want to post...

[melverie]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[fuckinart]

(they'll never understand) How could I ever understand? No, I don't have to understand. I don't wanna understand. So I will never understand. (we could have everything)