#jonathan blogs

[alchemicalterror]

[morganbritton132]

When Steve and Dustin started hanging out, Steve would try to wrestle with him like bros but Dustin wasn’t having it.

When Steve and Robin became friends, she would wrestle with him but then she got his armpit hair in her mouth so they don’t do that anymore.

He tried to wrestle Eddie but Eddie tried to physically fight him so Steve steers clear of that activity with him.

Occasionally, on a blue moon, Hopper will walk past him and put him in a headlock. Steve loves that, but he loves Argyle the best because Argyle will throw down.

Argyle can not only pick Steve up but can also keep him pinned down which makes him a worthy opponent in Steve’s book.

Every time they randomly start fighting each other, Eddie fumes with jealousy and Robin is always there like, “Well, maybe if you didn’t try to punch him in the face…”

“Thanks, Robin.”

“That could’ve been you straddling him on the floor.”

“Thank you, Robin.”

[aotearoa20]

Well i dont know what y'all were so worried about - apart from a couple of late trains it seems your dear friend jonathan is having a great time on his buisness trip

[jamdoughnutmagician]

Thank you Jonathan Bailey for being the perfect Fiyero. The right blend of Romantic Disney Prince, and Slut.

[invincibledc]

⋆˙⟡—MY DC OCS REACTION TO YOU SAYING “I LOOK UGLY”⋆˙⟡



⋆˙⟡ JACK QUINN (son of Harley Quinn and joker)

Immediately is towering over you, expression dark.

“Who said that to you? Cause you’re beautiful, you’re handsome , stunning, and—” and it would keep going til he just makes you feel secured. He hates to see his beloved puddin' feelin bad.

Cause if it was someone who said it to your face, they won’t live long enough to say that to anyone else.

⋆˙⟡ KOLE ANDERS (adoptive son of Starfire aka Kory Anders)

Frowns as he looks you up and down , “but you are more attractive than any human I met?”

Bros fully confused on why you said it til you tell him it’s just a joke and now he just nods.

But then later on he goes over to you when you forgot about the whole prank, he then kisses your cheek. Smiling seeing the shock on your face, “you are gorgeous.”

And he just flys off.

⋆˙⟡ DEMETRIUS PRINCE (son of wonderwoman and Steve Trevor)

“Hm?” Looks at you as he was mid bite into a huge sandwich. “Yeah you are pretty ugly.” He says jokingly, not thinking it would affect you til he sees you start to cry.

Drops the sandwich and immediately spews apologies while cupping your face. “Wait! Wait! I’m sorry, you aren’t ugly! You’re the most gorgeous person ever y/n—”

He spoiled you the whole day after the whole incident, Damian blackmails him saying how that you’re his number one weakness as Jon just awes at how Demetrius is more soft with you.

[bumpybumpyroad]

Dark and twisted tma au where avatars spread “joy and whimsy” instead of fear

Bonus fake screenshot:

(If you want to see more of this, check out the “joy and whimsy au” tag!!)

[noodles-and-tea]

hello honored tumblr artist noodles and tea have you heard of the podcast The Magnus Archives, and if so, do you have any thoughts on it

I love tma!!

[sweetmapple]

Elias: “He’s my little guy, my small tiny fellow, my little sopping wet kitten, he could be killed by a passing summer breeze, my most favorite employee, the most fragile traumatized little mind in reach, he’s never done anything wrong in his entire life, he’s the coughing baby to my hydrogen bomb, the sickly Victorian child to my plague, my little discord kitten, my blorbo whom I must put through the horrors, he’s never had a day of rest in his life and if it was any other way I would be miserable, he’s a stress ball to me, my little archivist must be put in Situations so I may thrive off his suffering and moral confusion. He is a dark mirror to my brilliance, cut of identical cloth but the very model of weak qualities I left behind, the becoming and undoing of my being and my most precious arbiter of fear in 200 years.”

Jon: “Elias, the mannequins wanted to skin me, I’m scared.”

Elias openly weeping: “And he’s perfect.”

[gollancz]

Guys. Christmas is coming. Consumerism is in the driver's seat and GAWD don't I know about the existential ennui of all these faceless corporations trying to schill you their wares. It's cold. Impersonal. Bleak.

So I, a fellow tumblr user, will instead try to schill you MY wares, so that when you purchase these items you can say "Hey, that person from tumblr worked on this", and feel the warmth of HUMAN CONNECTION in a way that is completely normal and not parasocial at all. We really are friends. I promise. Yes, you. Love you, bestie. Remember the boop war? Good times. Fond memories.

THIRTEEN STOREYS and FAMILY BUSINESS by Jonathan Sims

Tumblr's favourite Nightmare Factory @jonnywaistcoat has two novels out and they're phenomenal horror that also punch you in the throat with SOCIAL COMMENTARY and FEELINGS. He's so adept at tapping into the specific part of my brain that feels fear like a small child - not the adult creepy scared that I normally get around horror, but specifically the kind of fear that almost freezes your limbs and vocal chords with a terror you don't quite understand because there is so much in the world that you don't know, but you know that somehow this thing might be quick enough or smart enough or sneaky enough to get you before you can get to the safety of your parents sort of fear.

THIRTEEN STOREYS is a haunted house novel, but set in a refurbished block of flats. Each chapter follows a different resident being haunted in a different way, with a style to match the flavour of ghost. It's all tied together phenomenally and brutally.

FAMILY BUSINESS is a story about ghosts in a different way, following a woman who joins a post-mortem house cleaning service while grieving the death of her best friend. But as she removes the stains from the houses of the dead, she begins to suspect something else is removing even more.

Both of these titles are available from Gollancz worldwide!

THE LAST UNICORN, THE WAY HOME, THE INNKEEPER'S SONG and A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE by Peter S. Beagle

Obviously Peter's work needs no introduction, and our editions aren't available in the US and Canada, but I've had a wonderful time working with Peter and his team to bring these beautiful books back to the UK. Meeting him at Worldcon this year was such a magical moment, and he was jet-lagged and I had gone through sleep deprived into hyper and was bringing an Extremely Weird Energy to every interaction I had that day, resulting in this photo:

THE LAST UNICORN and THE WAY HOME are a matched pair of wonderful fairy stories. THE WAY HOME has two novellettes in it, and the first - 'Two Hearts' - won the Hugo award. It will also destroy you.

A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE was Peter's first ever novel, and it's wistful and romantic and so beautiful.

THE INNKEEPER'S SONG is his epic fantasy quest, it's an adventure story that reads almost lyrically. Also there's an orgy in the middle which caught me by surprise when I was reading it for the first time on the train into work.

HIGH VAULTAGE by Chris and Jen Sugden

It's possible that someone on this website doesn't know I was involved with this book but don't worry, I will HUNT THEM DOWN AND TELL THEM. This is the first book I took all the way through the editorial process from end to end and I am SO PROUD of it and Chris and Jen and their wonderful world of @victoriocity. Officially one of the seven funniest books published in the UK this year, shortlisted for the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. It's a chaotic, bonkers murder mystery set in an alternate Victorian London which is the most gleeful dystopia I have ever encountered.

Featuring:

Grumpy Sunshine besties

The Victorian Equivalent of the Chuck Norris Meme

A robot who undertook a course in People Management

An indefatigable beagle

This is another book that you can get from Gollancz all over the world, and you SHOULD because it's amazing. Go into your local bookshop and ask them to order it into stock. It's a great Christmas present. It's my firstborn book baby (like that's a completely normal thing to say when I didn't even write it). Also if you're a fan of the podcast, why not tell the Guardian how great it is, and make a nuisance of yourself until they review. (I would, but the form asks for your name and then they'd know I didn't suddenly discover Victoriocity this year. Either that or think I was a very careless editor.) If you've not listened to the podcast yet, you absolutely should. It pings all my Douglas Adams receptors in the best way. If you like HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE, if you like CABIN PRESSURE, VICTORIOCITY is the perfect addition.

HAMMAJANG LUCK by Makana Yamamoto

SLIGHTLY cheating because HAMMAJANG LUCK isn't out in North America until January (pre-orders make great Christmas presents guys), but it IS out in the UK and the rest of the world next week! This is my second big editorial project and it's a Big Gay Space Heist ft. disaster lesbians, trans characters, and a tech billionaire getting put in his place. It's joyous and energetic and crammed full of Hawaiian pidgin as a love letter to the diaspora. @makana-yama is a phenomenal writer and this is their love letter to their communities, families both born and found, while also a statement on the victims of gentrification (and how those are disproportionally BIPOC communities). PLUS:

friends to enemies to cautious allies to lovers

trans cyborgs

Suck It Space Elon

You know that One Scene in Charlie's Angels where Cameron Diaz is in the white body suit and breaking into the safe and has to stretch out to hit two buttons at once? Yeah. That's the vibe.

Being able to work with Makana is a delight, and HAMMAJANG tapped into all the feelings I got watching LEVERAGE for the first time, so I went to watch it again while I was editing. Also OCEAN'S 8.

DEEP BLACK by Miles Cameron

So, barring Branderson, Miles Cameron may be one of our most prolific authors. He writes a minimum two books a year, one SFF and one historical fiction (as Christian Cameron) and he is... An absolute phenomenon. He IS the Chuck Norris meme. I'm obsessed with him. He's former US military intelligence turned naturalised Canadian Hippy, has written over fifty novels, can turn his hand to any genre and write it fantastically, is a practical archaeologist - running large scale re-enactments from a variety of periods ranging from Bronze Age right the way up to the Victorian era, using traditional techniques to allow academics to study how the practicalities of weapons, clothes, food etc. would have worked in practice. Two years ago he won a medieval combat tournament in Verona, a clear ten years older at least than the next oldest competitor, he teaches Historical European Martial Arts, but ties it into the history of martial arts globally. He can make his own clothes, ink, leatherwork. He's a ballet dancer. I once took him for a day out and he ended it in a different shirt and shoes from the ones he'd started in. I asked him for an author photo and he sent me this:

DEEP BLACK is the sequel to his critically acclaimed SF debut ARTIFACT SPACE, where he has taken his research and experience of global historical cultures and extrapolated to create an interplanetary future where the best of all are celebrated. And then Aliens Happen. And then, in reaction, Capitalism Happens (which is covered in the short story collection BEYOND THE FRINGE).

He's such a thoughtful and erudite speaker, if you're curious about his work, I'd recommend listening to his episodes on the Friends Talking Fantasy podcast, and also his appearance on The Publishing Rodeo.

If SF isn't your bag, he's also got:

Arthurian fantasy

Bronze Age fantasy

Medieval Mages fantasy

A CURSE OF CROWS - Lauren Dedroog

I actually inherited Lauren when a colleague of mine departed for fresh pastures, which gave me the great opportunity to work on this series which is so vastly different from my usual fare. It's epic, sweeping, romantic and lush, with such detailed description and complex political machinations, while also being brutal, dark and heavy (tw: for sexual assault, torture etc, etc.). If you like Sarah J Maas and Cassandra Clare, this should hit the sweet spot. Lauren is an ICU nurse when not writing, and this was somehow created when she was putting in a million hours in hospitals during COVID. The feat boggles my mind.

A CURSE OF CROWS is out now in the UK, Australia and Europe, and it won the People's Choice for Standaard Boek's Book of the Year award in 2023, in her home country of Belgium. It will be hitting shelves in North America next September! A DANCE OF SERPENTS is where I get to pick up the editorial mantle, and that has just landed in my inbox this week so I am excited to dig in.

Featuring:

Harold, they're lesbians

Murder baby is actually a cinnamon roll

Sensitive wings are sexy

For serious, though, I'm lucky enough to work with a lot of authors I'm genuinely obsessed and astounded by. And yes, I do get to work on Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson and Andrzej Sapkowski, but they're not MY authors - they're led by the incredible Gillian and Marcus who I'm not 100% certain sleep. There are so many people on the Gollancz list who I could recommend for DAYS (and will, if you so request), but this is my stable of superstars.

[occudo]

How to be an archivist: - be ace - be aware

[askdamijon]

hey Jon, if Damian were to theoretically confess his theoretical love for you, what would you do?

what do i do what do i do what do i do what dO I DO WHAT DO I DO??????? -Jon

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[alchemicalterror]

Boys and girls of every age,

Would you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, my town of Halloween -

[koifoxes]

the archivist

[feartoxinjelloshot]

lest anyone think he ever leaves my mind, here's some of cv (clipsverse not codotverse LOL) jon :^D mostly just a fun drawing but i wanted to dig into his psyche a little because i looove dissecting his brain. in my au one of the major building blocks of why he does the whole scarecrow thing is because he has struggled all his life with debilitating anxiety & panic disorders. there are of course a handful of other factors but i really liked the idea of a scarecrow who is irrevocably obsessed with studying how fear affects people's lives because it affects his life so deeply. he's convinced that if he studies fear extensively enough then he'll be able to cure himself of it and live a quote "normal life" unquote, but, ironically, he's afraid of what actually going through with it would do to him...

[antihero8baller]

more shitposting

[invincibledc]

⋆˙⟡ THE THREE FOUR MUSKETEERS⋆˙⟡

⋆˙⟡ DAMIAN WAYNE, JONATHAN KENT, DEMETRIUS PRINCE (OC) X CIVILIAN!READER⋆˙⟡

SUMMARY: being best friends with the supersons while you are just a civilian isn’t really easy as most people think…

GENRE: fluff + silly + oc x reader + slight angst

INFO: This is a superson OC I’ve written for my own amusement. Demetrius is clearly the son of Diana Prince, and being the older brother of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Prince. He’s canonically handsome cause he’s the son of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor (this is my own AU. SO YES STEVE IS ALIVE!!). Demetrius is a brute.

WORD COUNT: 2,205

HANG-OUTS

Hangouts with the supersons…. They are quite amusing…

Especially that one time back when you guys were thirteen, Demetrius pushed Jon a little too hard into a fountain. All because Jon got a “little” too close to you. Making the great fountain at a mall break.

Damian could only hold you close as Demetrius pulled his arm back as Jon glared at him.

“You imbeciles need to calm down,” Damian says lowly, ensuring you weren’t still a little spooked by the strength of the Amazon male and the Kryptonian.

“We are in public—with L/N.” He hissed as the two brutes stopped almost wrestling, almost exposing their identities.

“Please stop…” you awkwardly said, feeling Damian’s hand grip onto your shoulder. They immediately stopped by your command, shaking hands and nodding.

“Yes, Mx.”

But that wasn’t the only time, there was one time when you were trying to stay at your home. Usually, this night would be the night the boy’s decide to which house to hang out and watch random movies.

Friday night had different plans, you had a narrative story to do and you needed to do it this night.

Your phone rang. You picked it up to see the name “SuperDweebs” as the group call contact. Answering—you heard a bunch of yelling.

“YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT WE ARE NOT STAYING AT MY HOUSE!” Demetrius’s voice rang first. It made you jolt with wide eyes before you turned your phone volume down.

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN!! WE COULD STAY AT MY HOUSE!!? WE CAN PLAY WITH THE COWS!?”

“Kent, no one’s playing with cows for fun. Unless we’re petting them for free. I demand we stay at my place for all of our wanted entertainment. My father has installed a game room for our.. ‘tastes’.”

The boys stayed quiet, you scrunched your face. “Guys.. what’s going on?”

Damian simply explains that they are debating whose house should be the hangout spot for tonight. You sighed, or course these guys are being angry and annoying.

“Well… I can’t hang out tonight..” you said softly, tapping your finger against your computer pad.

Silence.

“What do you mean you can hang out with us?” Jon said lowly, his voice soft and gentle. You swore you could see him pouting. His baby blue eyes wavering.

Damian narrowed his eyes, his emerald eyes scanning over to his window to the phone he held.

“Why not?” He says, his tone concerned but a little disappointed.

“Because I have a narrative to write. So I can’t be distracted by you guys.” Simply saying, you sighed when Demetrius groaned loudly.

“Yknow what. How about we come over to y/n’s house since obviously, we can’t have them at our houses.” Demetrius says, his wavy hair being pushed from his eyes as he looks at his TV.

“I agree with Prince, do you Kent?”

“Yeah! I like this!”

Your eyes widen, no way these boys already had agreed on this quickly.

“Wh-what I don’t get a say in this?!”

“No.” They all said before they hung up the call, leaving you in your room purely shocked.

Minutes later, you were halfway finished with your narrative—your mother knocked on your door.

“Sweetie.. your uhm.. friends and boyfriend are here?” Your eyes widen when hearing a snicker from behind your door before a smack is heard.

“Ow!”

You sighed, you really thought they wouldn’t come over. But who’s lying here, Damian knows everything about you cause he’s a Wayne and a Robin. Jon is kryptonian, he can hear your heart beat when you lie. And Demetrius? He’s just sneaky and assertive.

So here you stand as you look at your three super best friends who held different items for this night’s hang out.

You can never stop them…

PICKING UP

You’re probably wondering why there’s this section called “picking up”? Right?

Well, it’s you being picked up from school.

Damian, with his bougie ass—shows up at your school. No matter how old you guys have gotten. He’s showing you smirking with Demetrius and Jon in the back or at least just him.

Demetrius picks you up by literally showing up, and texting you to meet him in the back. You meet him of course, only for him to throw you over his shoulder and fly off to whatever.

Jon, being the sweetheart, he ask his dad if they can pick you up. Just so you both can get ice cream!

It’s adorable, but boy—you never had to ask either of your parents to pick you up when these goofballs can easily come to your recuse.

BEING PROTECTIVE

Protectiveness… its something.

Because when you all started to get older, things changed. For everyone of course, not just you.

Say if you were bullied, immediately if you tried to hide it. Ignoring calls of the group call. Ignoring any knocks at your apartment door, even your mother tries to talk to you.

Its no use, because you don't want to worry anyone.

But that stops when Demetrius bursts into your room, pulling up your window sill and coming in.

“Whats up with you?!” you jumped back shocked to see the Amazon male point at you aggressively. But his eyes held so much worry.

“Ignoring our calls, ignoring us?! Its like you want to fall off the planet of earth.” he yells, you try to not cry, but its no use when you are pulled into a hug.

“You’re hiding something… please just tell me.” he says softly, his hair tickles your neck when you hold him tightly.

“Please.. Tell me moró mou..” you break down, telling him about the bullying. How you didn’t want to worry anyone.

You didn’t notice how his eyes gotten darker, with rage and justice for you. As much as you plead for him not to tell the others, you had fallen asleep afterwards.

Demetrius pushes hair from your face, stoic and calm. He leaves your room, closing the window and flying off making a certain call.

Jon was enraged, and Damian had a dagger already in his hand the moment the Wonderboy told them about the situation.

But they had to calm down, they were the mighty future trinity.

So don’t be surprised when the people who bullied you have suddenly become scared of you. Maybe Damian gave one of them a black eye, but that’s the worse he could do at that moment.

NOW, if this was about an evacuation… the supersons would do a plan about which one of them would get you to back to safety.

Damian/Robin probably being one to plan it fully out the moment you became their best friend.

Jon being the one to tune in on his superhearing to hear your heartbeat only to see if you’re okay. And then there’s Demetrius ready to be unleashed like a rapid dog to go and get you.

They’ve been planned this out since you became their best friend.

SLEEPOVERS

OH DON'T GIVE ME STARTED. DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE SLEEPOVERS.

Sleepovers are more chaotic than those stupid hangouts.

Hangouts end with Damian scolding the two super strength idiots, sleepovers end with who’s getting to host it and who’s getting to be the one who is listening to your problems.

You could try and rant, and Damian would hum while nodding as Demetrius makes small comments like “punch that hoe.”

Jon would be like, “Violence isn’t must needed.”

Sleepovers at Damain’s house always lead to some of his brothers breaking it or being nosy. Although Alfred makes sure his brothers aren’t much of a pain.

Sleepovers at Demetrius’s house always have Lizzie wanting to join. When the Amazon male tells his little sister no, she throws a tantrum. Diana then has to calm down her little warrior, telling her son to let Lizzie at least participate a bit.

Now Demetrius is glaring at his little sister who is smug, holding onto you who just giggles with Damian taking a picture of this and Jon just waving at the small girl.

Now Jon is probably the one most of you guys go over—that’s a lie. It’s your place again. But anyway, Jon’s place is cool. It’s a nice and calm place since it’s the countryside.

Mostly since he lives with the farm, he can always show off the farm animals and be happy to see his best friends.

Anyways, the sleepovers are either fun or chaotic. Demetrius always makes Jon wrestle with him, and you try to stop them before Damian holds you close to him so you won’t be injured.

It’s just a whole mess!

HOLIDAYS

Let’s do this… in the normal year of holidays. By months here is how it goes..

NEW YEARS: okay first of all.. you were alone during new years. Your family was out to see other family—so you were left alone in the apartment. And your best friends were out saving the world.

It’s sad, isn’t it? Well, the next thing you knew when you woke up, was the supersons sleeping on your floor in weird ass poses.

Turns out, you won’t be spending any year alone after.

VALENTINES DAY: Damian already sends you so many gifts on the way to your place. Your parents are shocked at how much the son of a billionaire spent on you as you flushed. Jon flew by your window and gave you a big teddy bear, it was up to your face as he gave you a big hug. And then Demetrius just shows up with a DVD of your favorite anime movie. It’s shocking cause it was 2 years ago when you mentioned this. And he easily bought this for you…

ST. PATRICK’S DAY: don’t try and pinch the boys, cause they will pinch you harder. Ten times harder! Although they did wear green along with you so none of you were victims.

APRIL FOOLS’ DAY: I think you can try and fool them. But I think most of the time 9/10 you will fail or succeed based on your lie and how calm you seem when saying it. You know those childish jokes like “I like you, more than a friend” kinda April Fools?

I feel like Jon would just blow up, red face, and fly away before tackling you down. Damian would just stare at you til you awkwardly tell him April Fools only for him to say “I know.”

Demetrius being his sarcastic self would say, “I like me too a lot. I don’t know about you.” Obviously his heart dropped before remembering what day it is.

EASTER: the egg hunts are so… interesting.. Demetrius will literally push a kid for a chocolate egg. Damian would just stay home rather than do that… he’s so not hogging all the chocolate coins. And then Jon is cheating with you close by his side to get alot of chocolate eggs.

HALLOWEEN: watching horror movies with the supersons is so entertaining! Jon would accidentally hold onto you so tight that Demetrius has to push the Kryptonian boy from you so you won’t be harmed. Damian says he isn’t scared of such “horror” gimmicks. But he says this as he is holding your hand under the blanket. Demetrius trying to be the oldest of the group, sets up a small little thing where if anyone goes to the bathroom alone—they have to bring a partner.

Immediately Damian gave him a disgusted look.

And then there’s time where you and the boys had dressed up a four group party from an anime/show/cartoon and you got a lot of candy.

THANKSGIVING: a big ASS Justice league and their family, young Justice/teen Titans having a superfamily Thanksgiving. You were somehow invited due to Damian dragging you along. You sat near the supersons, smiling softly at how cool it is to be by the superheroes who treat each other like family. It just feels—like home.

CHRISTMAS: sitting, staring at the big Christmas tree in the small living room of your apartment. You smiled gently, but it held sadness. You weren’t mad at your best friend for not being able to be with you. You’re not. So you just fell asleep by the tree, holding warm milk and cookies for “Santa”.

Damian, being the usual one to always break into your place. He lock picked the window sill open that shows you sleeping by the tree.

“We shouldn’t be doing this,” Jon says lowly, not wanting to wake you up as Demetrius gets in after Damian lands his feet on the soft carpet floor.

“I had a weird feeling about not being able to be with l/n for such a time for this night.” Damian whispers, placing a few gifts that he and the boys have gotten you.

“You mean guilty. You feel guilty dipshit.” Demetrius says, his voice low while picking you up and taking you to your room.

Jon could only smile as he eats the cookies, “wow.. they’re a great cook!” He eats most of the cookies and drink the nice warm milk.

Damian gave him a weird look before he finished placing the presents.

The Amazon boy walks into the living room to see Jon wipe his mouth and Damian mess with his watch.

“The package is safe and sound asleep,” Demetrius says with a small smile. “Good. Then we should head home before our parents find we snuck here.” Damian immediately got onto Jon’s back. Jon starts to float out the window with Demetrius shuts the window behind him after they had fully left.

Your holidays may seem lonely, but you were never unappreciated.

Demetrius Prince tag: @darkfaethedestroyer @dead-ry-walking @chalkadow @eclecticeaglebluebird @mistake34 @dandelion-delusion