#pre-finale content

[hexkids-au]

Danny doodles for the au

[alecz-obssesionz]

(((OOC: On Pale King in your Modern AU. Is he still alive or is he dead like in the video game?)))

◇ Yes! He is alive but doesn't live with his kids anymore... I got the idea and made this little comic about that matter^^ Kinda late but here finally!

🥀 | MODERN AU - Bringing him up | 🥀

[jjaynze]

🎡🎟️🎡

[spilledsinnamontea]

Idk if I’ll ever be normal about levihan even after the manga had concluded two years ago. I mean, I would just mindlessly scroll my timeline, only to audibly groan and/or hiss in pain a few moments later—as if I was having a sudden war flashback—every time I see something that reminded me of them 🥴

Yeah... I wish I was kidding 💀

[mrfisherot]

have tsp memes as a small little gift

[divinemiracles]

I find it strange with how so many people say that Luz is the “people pleaser of the show” and ignore Willow completely.

[cantsayidont]

April 1960. In the first 15 years of the Superboy strip, Lex Luthor appeared only once, in a 1957 story in SUPERBOY #59 that showed him as an adult while Superboy was a teenager. This story in ADVENTURE COMICS #271, written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, completely redefined Superman's relationship with Luthor, showing that the two were about the same age (rendering the 1957 story apocryphal), had first meet as teenagers, and for a time were actually friends.

This story says almost nothing about Luthor's family (about which more would be established later), although Luthor is described as "a recent newcomer" to Smallville, and he describes himself as a farmboy. When Superboy first meets him, Luthor is driving a tractor on his family's farm, which proves fortuitous; a Kryptonite meteor lands in the field, immediately paralyzing the Boy of Steel, but Luthor saves him by using the tractor to push the meteor into a quicksand pit. Afterward, Luthor reveals that he has idolized Superboy for years, calling him "the greatest boy in the world," and explains his interest in science, conducting experiments in a laboratory in his family's barn. In gratitude for Luthor saving his life, Superboy builds him "a modern experimental laboratory" and stocks it with "rare chemicals, some still unknown, which I burrowed out of the ground, at super-speed!"

Superboy jokes, "I could easily peek at your formula with my super-vision-- ha, ha-- but I wouldn't do anything to... er... snoop!" Luthor replies, "Of course, you wouldn't... ha, ha!" Superboy then flies away, as Luthor marvels at his good fortune. Then:

Later recaps of this story (with the notable exception of Elliot S! Maggin's 1978 prose novel SUPERMAN: LAST SON OF KRYPTON) tend to omit or skim over the details of Luthor's experiment, but this is obviously quite significant: Luthor has created a living being, a crude protoplasmic entity. Naturally, he's ecstatic, and grateful to his benefactor for making this possible:

Then, disaster:

This story is often mocked for attributing Luthor's bitter, violent enmity toward Superman to the loss of his hair, but as these panels make clear, that is expressly not the only thing Luthor is angry about, nor even the most important one:

Superboy's contrition notwithstanding, this is a pretty reasonable thing for Luthor to be angry about: He created a living creature that is now destroyed because Superboy tried to put out a chemical fire by blowing on it. The loss of his hair, aside from the social impact of being rendered permanently bald at the age of 15, is also a reminder of Luthor's more consequential loss. In the LAST SON OF KRYPTON novel, Maggin describes his reaction like this:

He would never grow hair or a beard again. He would laugh or cry or become enraged when pansy philosophers wondered, in the future, whether laboratory life could have a soul. He knew that such life would have no less than the soul of its creator. Lex Luthor chose, from the moment his creation died, to hate the being who had saved his miserable life, who was responsible for the loss of his brown curls and his child. It was the only way he could walk slowly, one millimeter at a time, from the abyss of madness.

Written 18 years later for a different audience, Maggin's prose version is more emotionally charged than Siegel's, but it's mostly quite consistent with the original account, although Maggin doesn't mention the paranoia that's evident in this story. Luthor's insistence that Superboy deliberately sabotaged him out of envy is irrational, but not wholly without basis; Superboy's response to the fire (which he should have immediately known was a chemical fire, since he was the one who stocked the lab) was not at all sensible, and Luthor has paid a heavy price for it.

Luthor pretends to calm down, but he then retrieves the Kryptonite meteor and attempts to use it to kill Superboy, which fails, ironically, thanks to the last dregs of Luthor's Kryptonite antidote. Afterward, Luthor challenges Superboy to arrest him, but Superboy refuses, declaring, "No! You saved my life once! Now we're even!" Then:

(I believe the final panel of this story may have been the first time that Luthor had ever been given a first name; his earlier appearances, and some after this, just referred to him as "Luthor.")

At first blush, Luthor's protoplasmic creation is an odd feature of this story, which is probably why it was often dropped from subsequent accounts. However, it's tempting to see it as a kind of echo of Siegel's own feelings. It was Siegel who had first conceived the idea of Superboy in the mid-1940s, and the character was a significant factor in Siegel and Shuster's first unsuccessful lawsuit against National-DC over the rights to Superman in 1947. According to Les Daniels (in SUPERMAN: THE COMPLETE HISTORY), Siegel had intended Superboy to be quite different, a kind of mischievous super-brat, but editor Whitney Ellsworth hadn't liked that, and had had Don Cameron rewrite Siegel's initial script (for the story published in MORE FUN COMICS #101, pictured below) without Siegel's knowledge or approval, an unwelcome reminder that Siegel and Shuster didn't really have control of their creation. (DC now officially credits the story solely to Siegel and Shuster, although that may reflect the outcome of their most recent settlement with Siegel's family.) After the failure of their lawsuit, Siegel and Shuster were shown the door, although a decade later, editor Mort Weisinger hired Siegel as a freelance scriptwriter for a while. Much of that would probably have happened anyway (Siegel and Shuster were also unhappy that their work was diminishing as National was raking in money on Superman adaptations and merchandise), but Superboy was certainly one of the catalysts.

Mort Weisinger, who was notoriously brutal with talent and staff and had a low opinion of many of the writers and artists who worked for him, called Siegel "the most competent of all the Superman writers" and "the best emotional writer of them all." One of the reasons for that was that Siegel put a lot of himself into his stories, and in this respect, his relationship with Superboy was not unlike Luthor's in this story: He had created something crude but vital, with enormous possibilities, and Superboy had effectively destroyed it.

Besides Maggin, one of the few later creators to remember the actual details of this story was, surprisingly, John Byrne, who incorporated it into his origin of the post-Crisis Supergirl. In SUPERMAN #22 (October 1988), the final issue of Byrne's run, Superman learns that Supergirl is really a protoplasmic matrix, an artificial life form created by the Lex Luthor of the Pocket Universe in the image of his world's late Lana Lang. (In the Pocket Universe, Luthor didn't arrive in Smallville until after Superboy was dead, so the accident depicted in the Siegel story never took place, and Luthor completed his protoplasmic experiments in Superboy's own lab.) This is why that version of Supergirl, whose powers included the ability to change shape, was subsequently called "Matrix."

[hopegained]

what if we're both bounty hunters (we're already working for the resistance/first order respectively) and we go after an informant who's a politician trying to win their favor and then we're forced to work together 🙈

[joelletwo]

[on my hankim shit] i think orv is a monist story

[arolesbianism]

So I may or may not have spent a good chunk of my day trying to learn how to look into onis code and while I may not have yet succeeded I will likely keep fucking around with shit tomorrow and if I manage to succeed it'll spell great doom for my sanity as oni becomes the interest I've officially poured the most effort into analyzing

[hexkids-au]

Danny Finds Hexside (Part 1)

The first character to end up at Hexside is none other than Danny Phantom, so I'm going to introduce him first. He got to Hexside by accident, he was flying through the ghost zone in and out of random portals through spacetime, as one does, and ended up on the boiling isles. Luz and Gus were just finishing up talking to Principal Bump about why they should have a human exchange program.

Danny is listening from above, on the ceiling, waiting for a chance to sneak out and get back to portal jumping, when he falls off of the roof and onto the floor.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Doodles

[sunnibits]

had a dream last night that ofmd s2 came out unexpectedly but it was just kinda mid. fucking nightmarish.

[musical-chick-13]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL THIS IS NOT A DRILL THIS IS NOT A DRILL

IT’S NOT!!! A DRILL!!!!!!!

[lulukeskywalker]

.... People freaking out about tumblr ui change need to understand that tumblr, as any sociai media, doesn't care at all about your user experience, and cares only about money and how they can suck it from us (or from sponsors/companies that want advertising)

This is the sad reality of how Internet has turned since 2007 and honestly i have no hope for Tumblr to be different

It's already amazing they hasn't feed us an algorithm yet

[incorrectdmp]

Abigail: Are you the big spoon or the little spoon?

Charlie: I'm a knife.

Vincent, from across the room: She's the little spoon.

[berlinini]

I just wanted to say that I honestly enjoy ur blog a lot <33

Thank you, this really means a lot to me 🥰

I haven't been able to watch a show in weeks and so I feel a little bit disconnected but I've enjoyed the content we're getting so much! Louis is happy, Louies are happy, it 's so lovely to see!!

I love the community we've built here around him (and him only ;)), I love how we love him like a son, like a wife, I love the admiration, the jokes and gently bullying and the constant thirst!