#the Spanner chronicles

[elsenborn]

Concept: alt timelines where Ben gets with different people, but still has Kenny.

Ester and Rook. As examples!

[massivecheesecakewolf]

A discussion of a missed potential of a crossover of Danny Phantom.

In Tumblr I saw a lot of DPxDC, DPxMHA, and and even a DPxSupernatural fanfic once but didn't see any post about a crossover i am about to talk about. I didn't see any knowledgeable people like @aikoiya didn't talk about it while having a great theory about Danny being a tutelary spirit.

What am I talking about.

WORLD OF DARKNESS.

And chronicles of darkness.

Yes you read that right.

A dark tabletop RPG setting about a supernatural society that clashes with each other that normal people are unaware about in a masquerade where player characters play as a supernatural being that are either pawn to a higher power or a spanner in the works, and also hunter, that can be crossed over with Danny Phantom. Before you type something like "just WHY?" And " I think you are wrong as Wraith the oblivion underworld is massively different then the infinite realm" let me explain.

I think there is potential in this crossover as while sure WOD is dark, it is also fun as according to this video by Bruva Alfabusa at 5:25 it is also a clown world by its sheer wackiness like a company putting demons into their cheeseburger and other things. The potential of Danny Phantom x world of darkness (or DP x WOD for short) in my opinion is great as the world of darkness is focused on the character and their social skills as they are being forced to do something by their "boss"and I have an idea that DP ghosts are different then WOD ghost. Hell you could even put hunter the parenting in Danny Phantom world as HTP set in 2006 and Danny Phantom set in 2004 to 2007 according to the main timeline in the wiki.

Also I want people to do something funny about the idea that the infinite realm is different from the underworld and hunters who studied wraith are confused about mistaking an infinite realm ghost for a wraith (that the main reason I first write this post) and making a similarity and difference of fetter and obsession. As well the fact while WOD is dark, it is also heartwarming as one of a chronicles of darkness game line Promethean the created can earn a happy ending by turning human after a pilgrimage.

The individual game line I think could work with DP

Hunter the reckoning 5th edition

Vampire the masquerade and requiem

Changeling the lost

Werewolf the apocalypse and forsaken

Hunter the vigil (BTW the GIW don't count as hunter to my eye)

Both mage

Wraith the oblivion ( only if the underworld is different then the infinite realm)

Geist the sin eater ( geist are not halfa, they came back to life with a bond of an ancient spirit.)

And Promethean the created ( I want to see a Promethean get help for their pilgrimage while in Amity Park for a while, somehow ambiance ectoplasm somehow prevent the effects of wasteland and disquiet, just give Promethean happy ending please.)

Edit 2: genius the transgression ( I know that is a fan game but it is good)

Edit: in case you didn't pick it up I got into WOD by hunter the parenting.

[literaila]

Wait 😭😭 that detail slipped my mind. Gojo.. He- goodness, someone come collect him. Readers hand are full. I can't take this anymore. He's equally obnoxious as he is undeniably endearing in how annoying he is... Or maybe I'm just down bad. Props to readers, theyre really pulling through with the no desserts 😭

Also megumi.. He's so slick about it too. The whiplash, the betrayal. It's survival, honestly and I support him. There's no one quite like megumi to throw a spanner in the perfect works and productions of the chronicles of satoru gojos life. He's met his match.

Tsumiki is my heart.

And ill take that sticker right on my cheek. Please and thank you.

gojo’s stupid, and he also knows exactly what he’s doing. he wants to be coddled.

everyone should support megumi. his subtle revenge is brilliant and he cannot be stopped.

i will have to obtain said sticker first, but trust that your request will be fulfilled (5-7 business days?)

[pandimensionalemporium]

The Emporium Chronicles 1 - Sky Pirate

Time in the Pan-Dimensional Emporium was a questionable concept. Since it sailed through the void between worlds, there were no days, no months, no years, not even aeons by which to measure. Nevertheless, it wasn't too long after the new proprietor's arrival that the sky pirate appeared in the lobby.

It was quite the surprise to both of them. Being a sensible sort of person, the pirate responded to her sudden removal from her engine room by remaining calm. Being by nature polite, she finished wiping her oil-blackened hands on a rag before asking, "What's this place then?"

The proprietor, who had been knitting in an armchair and quite unprepared for visitors, hastened to change into a suitable form. As their natural shape was something like a cloud of glittering night wrapped in a woolly jumper, it tended to startle people.

"I do beg your pardon," they said. "Welcome to the Pan-Dimensional Emporium! This is the shop between worlds, where even the most far-fetched need may be met. I shall endeavour to guide you, but what you find here is up to you. Erm. Though I must admit, I didn't think anyone could get here yet."

The sky pirate looked around, taking in the wood-panelled counter, cluttered shelves, and the drifting void outside the windows. "Damn. I'm even more lost than I thought."

"The Emporium should find its way to people in need you see. But since the guidance system is currently a mess of corroded bits and bobs, I rather thought it was jammed."

"Listen, I really need to get back to my ship. We’re lost in the butt-end of nowhere and the crew's relying on me."

"Are you the captain?"

"Engineer."

"Oh! Then we might be able to help each other. If you could fix the Emporium's guidance system, it could attune a navigation device for your world. That would soon set you back on track."

The sky pirate sucked her teeth for a moment, then nodded. "Can't promise I'll know how to work your machine, but cogs are cogs and wires are wires. Lead on."

The Emporium's navigation room was directly underneath the lobby. They took the lift, which played them a cello symphony as they descended. The diamond grille opened onto a walkway suspended above a great inverted dome of glass. It offered a magnificent view of the void in all directions except up, where a ceiling instead displayed starry maps of a dozen or more worlds. The walkway led out to a platform directly over the centre of the dome. It was a circular navigator's study complete with charts table, mysterious brassy equipment, and even a leather armchair, but no walls.

The proprietor led the way to a bank of machinery tucked behind the table. "If you open that panel you'll see the problem."

The sky pirate took out her spanner and tutted. "You've had some cowboys in here."

"Tell me about it. I only took the place on recently, and it's a real mess. Gremlins in the library, rusted pipework all over the place, a whole wing covered in trees - it'll take me forever to get it into a decent state. Not that 'forever' has much meaning here, but it's the principle of the thing."

From somewhere under the machinery, the sky pirate grunted. "Couldn’t you get people in to help?"

The proprietor watched her deftly unscrewing problematic parts, cleaning the pieces, and reattaching them in what looked like a far more sensible arrangement. "You know," they said, "I think perhaps I could."

It was a companionable stretch of non-time. The proprietor passed down tools, fetched water and engine oil, and dug spare screws out of a drawer. The sky pirate tsked and huffed and wrangled things back into working order. At last, they both sat with mugs of thick tea and admired her handiwork.

"Think it'll work?"

"I'm sure it will." The proprietor fetched out a small grey tablet from a box beside the machine. "On its native plane, they call this a GPS. The Emporium can work a little magic to make it suitable for your world, and then it should guide you wherever you wish to go."

The sky pirate's eyes narrowed. "It’s a magic map?"

The proprietor smiled. "More or less. Though I suspect you’ll figure out its inner workings in no short order." They plugged the tablet into the newly-renovated guidance system and tapped a few brass buttons. A few seconds later the system beeped, and the proprietor handed the device to the sky pirate.

She accepted it with great care. "Thank you. If it does what you say, this might just save my whole crew."

And with that, she was gone.

The proprietor sighed, and leaned against the platform’s railing. The void stretched away, streamers of pink and purple energy threading an endless depth of star-studded blue. "Well," they said to no one in particular, "it seems the Pan-Dimensional Emporium is open for business."

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[darkmaga-retard]

In the last few days the Zionist propaganda juggernaut has been putting a spanner in its own wheels very successfully.

vanessa beeley

Sep 16, 2024

I will be covering the extraordinary collapse of the mainstay Zionist propaganda since October 7th - on UK Column News this Wednesday. But for a taste of the Hasbara shambles:

Why did the UK Jewish Chronicle ‘publish fake Israeli intelligence?’

This has been reported in a number of Israeli and UK media outlets, Al Mayadeen and The Cradle have also provided analysis.

I will take the report in 972 Magazine as an Israeli source. Their caption reads:

Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

From the article - On Sept. 4, Benjamin Netanyahu called a press conference for foreign media in order to explain his stubborn insistence on keeping Israeli forces in Gaza’s Philadelphi Corridor, even at the expense of a hostage deal. To his well-worn claim that the Gaza-Egypt border has historically been “porous” to the smuggling of weapons, the prime minister attached a new argument: if the Israeli army is not in control of the area, Hamas could “easily smuggle hostages out … to the Sinai desert,” and from there to “Iran or … Yemen.” After that, he added, “they’re gone forever.”

These fantastical claims are not substantiated until along comes the Jewish Chronicle and author Elon Perry to bring Netanyahu’s imagined scenarios to reality:

[buzzmaxsports]

Chelsea Disrupt Newcastle's Transfer Ambitions Again with New Target

Chelsea FC seem set to throw a spanner in the works for Newcastle United’s summer transfer plans. The Blues are lined up to snatch two potential signings from under Newcastle’s nose. They’ve already got Fulham’s Tosin Adarabioyo on a free transfer and are also eyeing Valencia’s goal-keeper Giorgi Mamardashvili. The Chronicle reports that the two clubs are both keen on securing Mamardashvili for…

[webionaire]

Monkey wrench appears in North America by 1838. The following advertisement appears in the Natchez Daily Courier (Mississippi) on 20 September 1838:

HARDWARE.

CARPENTERS knob-locks, flush bolts, cast butts, monkey wrenches, hand-cuffs, Salters Patent Spring balances; with a large and general assortment of Carpenters tools for sale by

sept 20 PATTERSON & WISWALL

The American-English phrase to throw a monkey wrench into means to stop or obstruct by direct interference—British-English synonym: to throw a spanner in(to) the works.

I have discovered that the original image:

– was of throwing a monkey wrench into the cylinder of a threshing machine, i.e. a power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk;

– appeared in the late 19th century;

– exclusively referred to political situations.

The earliest instance of this image that I have found is from a dispatch from Washington, D.C., about a debate in the House of Representatives, published in the San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) of Wednesday 6th July 1892:

Bland’s action in insisting upon amending the Stewart bill has been severely criticised. He is charged with occupying the position of the man who threw a monkey-wrench into a threshing machine because he was not allowed to feed it. The trouble with Bland seems to be that it is Stewart’s bill and not his. He wants all the fame, even if he jeopardizes the cause in which he proposes to lead.

The second-earliest instance of this image that I have found is from The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) of Sunday 12th August 1894—the term threshing machine itself is not used, but the word hopper is; however, the use of the verb grind might indicate that the reference is to a grinding mill:

[enddaysengine]

Soot Tags (Chronicles of Darkness)

Ever seen cobwebs made from ash after a fire? These soot tags aren’t actual webs, but magnetized particles congregating together following a blaze. Spiders never live inside them - at least in the Flesh. In the Shadow, massive black webs lurk in the corners of abandoned warehouses and dilapidated ruins. In these dark places lurk hargishar-ushumfin.

Image Source: Reddit

Desolation Crawlers appear to be spiders the size of large dogs. Instead of an exoskeleton, it has cracked coal and burnt wood. Flames leap out from between its joints and its many fractal eyes burn like orange jewels. The Spiders Fetter themselves to the buildings they will destroy, abandoning them only after reducing them to cinders. A sure sign of a hargishar-ushumfin infestation is  the dark webs they weave in Twilight.

Despite their shared arachnid form, Burning Spiders harbour a deep hatred for the Azlu. The hargishar-ushumfin prefer it when the Gauntlet remains weak, allowing them to slip back and forth between Twilight and the Shadow. Canny werewolves use this to their advantage, making common cause with the Desolation Crawlers against their shared foes. Of course, the Spiders don’t care for most packs either. They only show grudging respect for the Hunters In Darkness, Blood Talons, and Fire-Touched. For the latter two it is more out of deference for their Tribal Totems than any genuine appreciation.

While Beasts don’t always haunt the Shadow, the Begotten also show an affinity for the Desolation Crawlers, especially Eshmaki, Namtaru, and Talassii. For their part, the spirits don’t understand why Beasts care about them, only half-listening when they start rambling about the Dark Mother. The Spiders do appreciate that Beasts are content to let them hunt in their own way, unlike the Forsaken and Pure.

Burning Spiders (Desolation Crawlers, hargishar-ushumfin)

Rank 3 Arson Spirit

Attributes: Power 4 Finesse 9 Resistance 7

Willpower: 10

Essence: 20

Initiative: +16

Defence: 4

Speed: 17

Size: 4

Corpus: 11

Influences:  Destruction •, Fire ••

Numina: Blast, Firestarter, Implant Mission, Left-Handed Spanner, Speed

Manifestations: Fetter, Twilight Form, Reaching, Unfetter

Ban: Cannot damage a burnt building until the damage has been repaired.

Bane: A wind that has never carried smoke or ash

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[verobatto]

Destiel Chronicles

It was a love story from the very beginning.

Vol. LXXXI

Is Not Allowed (Part II)

(12x10 b)

Hello my friends! Second part of episode 12 and I'm afraid it will be a third one hehehehe

A lot to talk about it so, let's just start!

A little more of sassy Cas...

Just a quick refer nice to that scene we love so much, in which Sam is the third wheel once more (so we need to pray louder for him).

CAS: We'll find out. You wait here.

DEAN: Whoa, wait. Excuse me?

CAS: Ishim said to come alone. He doesn't like humans. If I plan to do anything else stupid, I'll let you know.

Gif credit @inacatastrophicmind 👇

So sassy here than even Sam is amazed, but mostly, he's pointing here Is him doesn't like humans. Again, is the huge difference between Castiel and the other angels. And how is seen Cas between his lore.

Disgusting

The encounter between Castiel and Ishim is very disgusting to see. Because Cas is a sweet bean, he's there to help to find out who killed his friend: Benjamin.

Castiel and Benjamin are alike, because based on what Cas said about Benjamin and his vessel, it seems as if this angel had the same love for humanity as Cas does.

CAS: Kept your vessels all this time. I'm impressed.

MIRABEL: We are not careless.

ISHIM:. But you, Castiel... I liked the old you better.

First of all, Cas is trying to be polite here, but he crashes against the rejection of the other angels. Mirabel is the first engaging, drawing there immediately, a boundary between them and Castiel. She's saying here: 'We're not careless, like you.'

Cas is surely not like them, and I infer he left his vessel because he respected the human will. He just ask her maybe for that one mission, and only.

MIRABEL: We've been waiting. I suppose it does take longer to get places now without our wings. You had a hand in that, correct?

ISHIM: Now, Mirabel, some angels think of Castiel as a hero. After he left us, he had his own flight to command. Balthazar, Uriel. Great soldiers. Both dead now, of course. You had a hand in that, too. So is he a hero? Is he a spanner in the works? I don't know.

CAS: I'm not a hero, but sometimes doing the right thing requires sacrifices.

ISHIM: True, but it just always seems that it's other angels sacrificing for your good deeds. Their wings, their lives.

CAS: Are you here to insult me or talk about Benjamin?

ISHIM: Can't we do both?

They're exposing Castiel's entire compendium of guilts. All of them, engaging without mercy against Castiel.

MIRABEL: In the years since we lost our wings, two others from our flight have been murdered, like Benjamin.

ISHIM: We're all that's left.

CAS: Why didn't I know about this?

MIRABEL: We didn't think you'd care.

That's exactly the idea they have about Cas. The filthiness of live among humans, bonding with one hairless ape. Cas is the one going against the Sacred Oath, before their eyes.

The hairless ape is not amused

Then we have Dean making his great and dramatic entrance, and almost sitting on Cas' lap! That, my friends, is showing a huge rate of defiance.

'So, you don't like us because we are together here? Watch me jump into my angel/boyfriend lap.'

Gif credit @gabrielokun

The message is received and we can see it in Ishim's face.

DEAN: Feel a little left out over there. Scoot over.

Dean is showing them here they came together, because they support each other. And they do whatever they want and not angel can change that.

The way Dean and ISHIM exchange glances is priceless. Because ISHIM keeps insulting Cas and Castiel's choice of stay with humans. Mostly, with Dean Winchester.

DEAN: Well, who wants some pie?

ISHIM: You know, when I knew Castiel, he was a soldier. He was a warrior. He was an angel's angel. Now look how far he's fallen.

Is official, they blame Dean, we heard it in season 7 too, and now here again. Cas fell for a human. (But... Didn't ISHIM too?)

The Mission

When the angel left, Sam and Dean were amazed about the way ISHIM treated Cas.

SAM: Hell of a friend, Cass.

DEAN: Why do you let him talk to you like that?

CAS: If Ishim can help me find whoever killed Benjamin, then I have to.

Truth is, deep inside, Castiel feels every word they said, and he thinks he deserves it. Depressed as he is in this season, he can only take the blame. Putting again the mission before everything.

The Lily comes killing Mirabel, and hurting ISHIM. And we are witnesses of fem!Cas and the mission.

Every angel in that mission were sure about one thing: VIOLATE THE SACRED OATH, WAS SENTENCE WITH DEATH.

Look at fem!Cas reciting this...

CASTIEL. Akobel, Seraphim of the Sixth Choir, you have lain with a human and you fathered a Nephilim. (...) You have broken our most sacred oath, and the penalty is... Death.

As I pointed before in season 8, the Nephilim is the union between a human and an angel, and is a forbidden relationship. THAT'S THE KIND OF NOT ALLOWED BOND WITH A HUMAN. And that's part of Castiel's POV too. Castiel struggling with this idea is permanent. Even with his rebellious nature, as @zevbaldwin added to the previous chronicles, the inner war is there. We will know more about this in the incoming episodes, and there's a fabulous episode in season 14x15 'Peace of mind', where writers talks about Castiel's POV again and the Sacred Oath.

There's no doubts about it. Nephilim should die and the angel that gave it birth, too. Because angels don't get laid with humans. Because is forbidden.

Akobel there is a perfect Castiel's mirror, loving and guarding humanity.

But once the story is told, look at this piece of dialogue...

SAM: Cass, you, um...

CAS: We completed a mission.

DEAN: Some mission.

CAS: It was horrific, but it was necessary. It was right.

DEAN: Well, you say so.

'We completed the mission's, as always, mission comes first, Castiel kept the speech of a soldier under orders. And Dean is not approving, why it is so bad if an angel wants to be intimately with a human? 'Well, you say so.' Dean adds. Kind of disappointed.

I have to cut again the analysis here, oh boy, this is Yockey, we can tell hahahaha.

To Conclude:

Castiel's depression is here again letting their old partners engaging against him, deep inside feeling he deserves it.

The Sacred Oath pointed no angel should intimate with a human, and is their sacred law, and writers shows it as an inner fight Castiel has for loving Dean. (Of course this won't be a problem once Cas discovers his father is the bad guy) but in the meantime, he is struggling with it.

Hope you like this meta, see you in the next one!

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If you want to read the previous meta from this season, here you have the links.

Vol. LXXV, LXXVI, LXXVII, LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXX.

Buenos Aires, September 29th 2020 7:35 PM

[petermorwood]

"...Mrs. Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot."

(The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, (c) C.S. Lewis 1950.

It may not be always winter and never Christmas (though in 2020 no unhatched chickens are being counted just yet) but when the weather turned mean as the week wound down, @dduane​‘s mind turned to this.

Twitter thread here, original recipe here, and “gloriously sticky” is an accurate description.

"The Chronicles of Narnia", both books and films, have made this dish quite well known, but a look at what Google provides for the search term tells me that very few of the fan-created sites are making it properly. DD suggests it's because so many of them are American and either don't know about or possibly can't get a principal ingredient. I saw one which included butter frozen then grated, which is a passable substitute...

But only if you can’t get proper suet.

This is the sort of pudding called a "roly-poly" – it turns up in nursery songs and rhymes like the "roly-poly, gammon and spinach" chorus of "A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go" (which also includes mention of one Anthony ( C)rowley, make of that what you will).

Here’s a jam roly-poly from the National Trust.

Roly-polys and the rest are suet pastry spread with jam, marmalade or breadcrumbs-and-syrup, rolled up like Swiss rolls, wrapped in floured cloth, foil or parchment then baked or steamed; IMO steamed are lighter and fluffier, baked are browner and more visually appealing. They’re then served with cream, custard like the jam one - or in my photo, yogurt, whose sharp tang made an excellent contrast to the sweet tang of the Seville marmalade.

Roly-poly puddings weren't haute cuisine, their filling stodge comes from a time when homes had no central heating and people had to run on internal calories much more than now. Just as often, puddings could make a good meal when the larder was getting bare and meat, veg or fruit needed stretched.

Mary Norwak's book "English Puddings"...

...has several suet puddings, both sweet and savoury, and since "Atora" has made vegetable suet for a long while now, it's possible to make even some savoury ones as veggie meals, with onions, potatoes, cheese, herbs, root vegetables like carrots, parsnips and turnips, but no meat.

In fact some were meatless anyway - Suffolk Onion Pudding has only onions and herbs in it - and though Norwak���s book doesn't say so, I have a feeling that the beef suet in some of these traditional recipes may have been the only form of meat available.

Steamed or baked, suet puddings often had nicknames unlikely to ever appear on a high-class menu: "Dead Man's Leg" and "Drowned Baby" are unlikely to appeal to anyone past Second Form - except perhaps Her Majesty’s Royal Navy, which isn’t surprising from a service which calls a knife and fork “port and starboard scran spanners”...

Linguistic sidenote for American readers whose dessert puddings are very different: English “pudding” may have once been French “boudin”, a kind of sausage; the sausage casing became the cloth, paper or nowadays foil in which the suet pastry is wrapped, and the French word was - as usual - mispronounced by the Rosbifs.

Robert Burns called haggis, also a kind of sausage, “Great Chieftain of the Pudding race.” However this doesn’t mean you should put cream, custard or yogurt on it. Fusion cuisine can go too far.  :-P

[highhopeslowexpectations04]

The Quarentine Chronicals: Entry 1

And so it begins...

It's been 10 whole days since the UK followed suit and locked down in an attempt to rid the world of COVID-19. I wake up every morning and double check that this is all really happening, that it's not some tacky Sci fi film I fell asleep watching and had a vivid elaborate dream about! But no, this is really happening, we're all living in 🎶 a whole new world 🎶, one without toilet roll or mcdonalds, which ironically causes the need for more toilet roll than on the average day, so I mean it's probably for the best...

I see all these people on social media (obviously not in person, because, well that's not allowed anymore) using this additional spare time to tap into those creative juices to maintain high morale and 'positive vibes'. Cakes are being baked, music is being written, art is coming alive, Tiks are being Tok'd, and I can't help but want a piece of the action... Until I realised that I can't bake, I'm tone deaf, can't draw and I'm definitely too old and miserable to be making tik toks! However, I do have a talent, and that talent is an adorable ability to make fun of myself and everyone around me, while maintaining an unbearable sense of sarcasm and a perfectly crafted fake smile ☺ and so it begins, the Chronicles of Quarentine! A weekly update on all the in house activities of an average Josephine!

I should start by introducing myself and my isolation buddy. Emma, 30, key worker for a bank (PPI has never been so important) no children, no pets, living in a flat with no outdoor space and a beautifully average life! Of which I mean that in the best way.. My life consists of great family, friends, long term relationship and usually not involved in global pandemics.

Dan, my isolation buddy aka boyfriend, younger than 30, key worker for a bank (answering complaints has never been so important) lives with me in the flat with no outdoor space, 6"2 and takes up 80% of all free space, also has a beautifully average life, in the best way!

Relationship background: we met at work, I hired him because he was pretty, I ended up being his manager which put a spanner in the works, he left that job, I left that job, checked each other out at the gym and 2 years later were quarentined together... What a precious story!

So, what's it like being isolated together? I bet its lovely I hear you say, I bet your spending loads of time together, really getting to know each other, heart, body and soul....

If he continues to breathe in my direction... I honestly don't think we're going to last (LOL, joke for the blog) I love him, I really really do! BUT no couple should EVER spend every waking moment together... Especially if there's a PlayStation involved! Even more so if Fifa on the PlayStation is involved!

"No Dan, I honestly don't want to help you pick your away kit... But as we're here, it should be pink"

"No Dan, I honestly don't want to help you answer your (fictional) interview at the end of the match"

And here is where I will end The Chronicles of Quarentine: Entry 1

Before I convince myself that 'dusting' the PlayStation with bleach is a good idea

Further updates to come, peace out ✌️

[elsenborn]

Zarro AU, another canon AU that I’ve decided to yoink and run with lol

Here are some designs!! Firstly, Animo (who this AU centers around actually). His expertise in many human medical and scientific fields, plus his personal drive to fix whats going on make him somehow the most capable survivor to handle this.

His son, James (I’ll post his backstory later. It’s even more in-depth than this and also from my main 10k AU) is also a survivor. He usually sticks close to Shar, who arrived to help once she found out her brother succumbed to the sickness. Much to her parents dismay, she refuses to leave until they can find a cure.

Scout also heard about what happened. Upon learning that Viktor and his troublemakers were the ones to craft the sickness, Scout brought a few Anur scientists to help find a cure. (This is also how i found out via a server friend that Jeffery Combs has a voice cameo as one of Viktor’s lackies 😂😭)

Ben Prime got zoomped to this universe at some point and got the rundown from Animo. Hes been keep the survivors at the Plumber base, and all the important infected that he can find are held in the Plumber base prison cells. This includes his wife (who will also be elaborated on in the James post)

The only important one he keeps out is Zarro. When Bad Ben came to collect him for the Benwars, it nearly got all the survivors killed. So now Animo keeps Zarro on a literal short leash.

Also when he’s not busy he will sometimes just go down to his old cell (where his wife is being kept) and just drink. And talk to her. He is right on the brink of total insanity.

The only things keeping him going are his son’s safety and the CHANCE he can cure Rina.

He knows at this point it is likely hopeless. There is no cure. They’re DEAD. But he’ll keep trying until it kills him. He has to.

[lilyvandersteen]

I know it’s Monday, sweeties, but I don’t have anything ready to post, I’m afraid. I’m going to need more time.

Which is why I’m going to point you to a few recent Klaine fics that I feel deserve your attention:

Chained to the Rhythm of Love by @mirvlywrites (WIP)

If you’re not reading this story, you’re missing out. Famous Blaine, Designer Kurt, instant sparks when they meet, but they have to overcome their own doubts and insecurities, and outsiders throwing a spanner in the works.

A Ghost Story by life42universe (WIP)

Kurt meets Blaine, but there’s something odd about him. Could he be... a ghost? Mysterious and intriguing. You’ll want to hug Blaine and coo at Kurt, and you’ll start theorising about what could possibly have happened to Blaine. Curiouser and curiouser.

Got A Secret by @poorlittleklainer

This bit of fluff is guaranteed to make you smile.

Oh, and if you’re into Zimbits, check out these:

Bits of Heaven by @wrathofthestag (WIP)

Only two chapters in and I’m completely sold on this AU already. Basically: Bitty owns a bakery. Jack applies for a job there. Not because he needs the money, but because he needs to turn his life around, and Bitty and his bakery and staff are just the breath of fresh air Jack needs. Wonderful story.

Houston Chronicles by @justlookfrightened

Quite angsty and a rather abrupt ending, but this story will hit you with all the feels and then some, and you’ll love every minute of it!

And you may say to yourself, my god, what have I done? by RabbitRunnah

Time-travelling fic. So well done. The way the characters just jump off the page is unparallelled. It’s a story you just want to live in.

[burlybanner]

Syzygy

Notes: New story. Will be putting it in installments, probably once/week. This is more or less to keep me honest with writing it. If I don’t, I won’t finish. I know me far too well. It’s a monster, probably close to NaNoWriMo levels if I’m honest. But it’s a nice monster. Note the tags.

Syzygy

Rating: M (themes/language mostly)

Pairing: Stark Spangled Banner

Special note: an AU of Infundo (post-Infundo Chronicles).

Summary:  They’d always been a triad - sun and moon, encircling a heavenly body...

***

The question was so out of the blue, so perplexing, so - fuck no, he must be losing his hearing - insane that Tony dropped the spanner. It bounced and clanged angrily across the lab's cement floor causing one bot - U - to chirp softly and pick it up. U tried returning it to its creator by repeating bumping against his leg, but Tony focused on one thing right now. One person.

"Run that by me again?"

"You heard me." Bruce Banner stared at an oil smudge between their feet. It was twisted in an odd shape, reminiscent of pancake-shaped licorice. "I don't think I need to repeat myself."

"Oh hell, no. No." Tony yanked the spanner from U's grip and tapped his shoulder with it while pacing the floor. "You don't drop a bombshell like that without giving a guy a hint. What brought this on?"

"Honestly?"

"Yeah, honestly."

"It looks comfortably soothing, I’m tired of running, I like who I am...and." He bit down his response, holding it between his teeth, but Tony could see Bruce mentally shifting gears - frustratingly choosing to conceal a portion of truth. A skill Bruce was, unfortunately, still good at doing.

Bruce sighed. "Maybe I'm warming up to full-on pampering from you and Steve. Do I really need to explain myself?"

"All right, fine. I...get it. Sort of." Tony paused mid-pace and gave Bruce the side-eye, but not without sauntering over to his extremely significant other while poking him in his gut (and Tony's finger sunk in a good five inches, before Bruce swatted his hand away).

Like diving into fresh dough, Tony thought wickedly.  

“Stop that.”

"Whatever. I'm just saying, you're what. Three-sixty? Three-seventy?"

"Three-ninety."

Tony tutted his tongue against his teeth, his eyes scanning Bruce from head to toe. He'd overlooked how round and jowly Bruce's cheeks had become and how much more his heavy belly wobbled over his belt like an over-inflated water balloon.

Tony slowly scraped his lower lip with his teeth and let his libido drink in Bruce's delicious form.  His fat had dissolved all his chiseled edges, smoothing them like candle wax, dimpling him in places Tony never expected to notice. Arms, legs, face, chin, chest, neck - even elbows and fingers Pillsburied up into scrumptious fat. Bruce'd blown up like a county fair attraction and Tony couldn't tell where he'd even put on the extra twenty; Bruce’s fat had settled into all his body’s spare nooks and crannies. All that lovely jiggling Jell-o. Waiting for touches, prods, tickles, and gropes—

"Earth to Tony," Bruce muttered, snapping his fingers in Tony's slackened face.

Tony snorted, pretending Bruce hadn't mesmerized him and turned him so the fuck on. Was he becoming more like Cap these days? Wouldn't doubt it. "ANY-hoo," Tony said, grabbing a rolling chair. He took inventory of Bruce more thoroughly by rolling around the scientist, taking a good 360-look while Bruce stared at his circular pattern.

"Are you trying to orbit me?"

Tony laughed. "No. Although that could be an experiment for another day." Tony poked and prodded Bruce’s flab, freely grabbing fistfuls of his favorite butterball and fluffing his ample butt cheeks.

"Tony," Bruce cautioned.

"Sorry. Couldn't resist."

"What are you plotting?"

"Me, plotting? Perish the thought. I'm planning, Banner. I have ideas, I have a million ideas. But we're gonna have to get Cap involved. He'll want to know."

Bruce fidgeted somewhat, which surprised Tony. Didn't seem like something Bruce would be shy about.

"So soon?"

"Well, yah, the sooner the better." Tony narrowed his eyes at him. "What's bugging you, Care Bear?"

"Nothing," Bruce said, but Tony didn't believe him. He let it slide as he rolled back to his desk.

" 'Nothing' for now, babe, but I'll challenge that declaration later." He did a quick calculation in his head and pulled up Jarvis' keyboard. "J, open a new file for me. Call it, 'Operation Supermax.' "

"Seriously?"

"Don't mock the name, Brucie Bear. It's not like I had time to come up with something better."

"New file created," Jarvis intoned, flooding the room with his soothing AI voice. "Would you like to add to it now, sir?"

Tony grinned at Bruce. "Scan Brucie for me, Jarvis. Put all his current vitals in there. Show us what we're working with."

Jarvis threw up a 3D image of Bruce‘s body and stats. “I will say, I'm quite curious, sirs."

"So‘re we, J. Especially interested in what'll happen after we tell Cap."

Bruce looked less enthused at telling Steve, but whatever. Steve was their partner; not telling him would be ridiculous. "Sure you don't wanna say why you're lookin' grim?"

"I'm not grim," Bruce stated, and Tony waggled his finger at Bruce's lie.

"Not my monkeys, not my circus. But you know Steve'll get it out of you if I can't, Pooh."

"I know."

"Easier to rip off the band-aid."

"I said I knew, didn't I?"

"Fine, fine." Tony toggled a few buttons on his keyboard. "J, call Steve down. We're gonna have a family meeting."

**

But Steve relayed a message through Jarvis saying he'd meet up after he'd finished his workout.  Bruce had grabbed five pounds' worth of snacks and wanted to wait for Steve in the media room, but Tony cajoled and wheedled him until he caved. Which was why he ended up joining Tony in the exercise room instead, ogling Steve's lifting routine.  Well, “cajoling and wheedling” wasn’t exactly right, to be fair. Watching Steve work out was a damn privilege.

"I feel like a stalker," Bruce muttered, unwrapping one of his remaining chocolate bars. He wasn't not staring, though.

"He probably knows we're here. He says he doesn't, but I think he does. I'm just obeyin' my thirst."

"Quit watching those dumb commercials." Bruce scarfed down his jumbo Snickers bar with two or three grateful grunts and gulped down his soda. And no, Bruce's Adam's Apple bobbing so deliciously up and down did not mesmerize Tony. Certainly not.

Nope.

"Mmf--and/or, get off social media. Sounds like you’re trying too hard to fit in with the cool kids."

"Heh. You can't tell me Steve doesn't like teasing us right back." Tony pointed his chin at Steve powerlifting weights rivaling Thor's class. "Look at 'im, you can't tell me he's not a thirst trap."

Bruce made a face as he tossed his wrapper and soda can in the trash. "Definitely too much social media."

Tony's eye lingered over Bruce's dwindling dragon hoard of snacks, which teased a lecherous smile from his lips. "You startin' early, or what?"

"Gotta keep up my strength."

"Mhm." Tony went into his head, thinking about how Steve'd go bonkers. In a good way. Probably in a good way. "You know Steve'll have his own ideas. You gonna let him go hog wild?"

"Oh, hardy-har." Bruce tore into a packet of mini donuts. "Yeah, okay, fine," he grunted. A smattering of donut crumbs sprayed from his full mouth before he put a hand to his lips to stop them. "You figured out why I'm apprehensive. Don't rub it in."

"I'm not tryin' to, Brucie. In fact, I think you're blowing this up way out of proportion." And don't think Tony didn't recognize the pun, even if Bruce didn't. He casually watched Bruce scrape crumbs from his shirt. "Don't you think he cares enough that h--"

"Oh, hey, fellas!"

Steve finally noticed them salivating in front of the spy window. Which was what Tony called it. Really, it was a breezeway with a window to the exercise rooms so folks could check for occupied training floors. But Tony mostly used it to indulge his naturally nosy nature.

Steve grabbed a fresh towel and wrapped it around his neck while Tony bit his tongue. Making lewd comments was tempting and although Steve wouldn't have minded, Bruce would get skittish if he ramped up the tension now. And if Bruce bolted, well...kinda made what he was about to do moot.

"What's up?" Steve dabbed sweat from his forehead and plunked next to Bruce on the thirst trap bench. His cheeks reddened when he noticed the mound of opened goodies. "Is it an emergency? Fury call us in?"

"Oh, nothing like that," Tony said. He propped his feet beneath the breezeway window. "Bruce has something he wants to say."

Bruce wiped powdered sugar off his lips while swallowing thickly. "Well, not...exactly."

"Yeah, ya do, exactly," Tony said, nudging Bruce's shoulder. "Boy Scout," he said, calling to Steve. "D'you think you could steel yourself enough to not act like a kid in a candy store?"

"Tony..."

"Bruce, hon', it's all good. Steve," he started again. Poor guy already looked five kinds of confused. "It's something that'll affect the three of us but unless Bruce explains with his big boy words I'm not gonna help him."

"Traitor," Bruce huffed.

"Only way to kick you out of the nest."

"What," Steve said, finally getting a word in edgewise, "the hell. Are you two talking about?"

Bruce shot Tony a narrow look before turning to Steve. "It's...it's not enough," he began slowly. "I-I mean, we're fine," he stuttered, gesturing to each of them. "We're great. But I want. I want more. And I'm not sure how you'll take it."

"Just know," Tony interrupted, "I'm on board 100% if you are. But I'm looking at this from a scientific perspective more than--"

"I thought you said I should tell him."

"Well, you're taking too long, Banner. Cut to the chase!"

Steve held up a hand, motioning both to shut their traps. "Thank you," he said once they quieted. "Now. Bruce. Muffin." He stroked Bruce's chubby cheek and Bruce melted like butter in his hand. "Gimme the specifics. Let me decide if I'll be okay or not with whatever it is."

But Tony could see the small trembling smile on Cap's features; Steve was noticeably scared. He made a face, hoping Bruce hurried it up before causing irreparable damage.

"I want," Bruce sighed heavily. His glance went back and forth at the men in his life, then to his hands. "I'm not exactly happy at my current weight."

Steve's lips thinned. He looked like someone had taken his favorite toy away, but the expression fled before Bruce caught it.

Tony noticed, though.

"So you want to lose weight," Steve sighed. He kept his voice level but Tony detected his disappointment. "Well, I understand. It's not like we expected it forever and--"

"No," Bruce interrupted, quieter than before. He wrapped his hand around Steve's, stilling the man's jitters. "You've misunderstood. It's...ah. It's the opposite."

Steve's cheeks flared while Tony choked back laughter from Steve's startled expression.

"W-what? You wanna gain more?"

Bruce slowly nodded. "I know you've always been encouraging, and you seemed satisfied when I tapered off. But I really like it when you and Tony feed me." Bruce reached for Tony's hand and rubbed his thumb across their knuckles. "I like breakfasts in bed, lazy nights watching B movies, and eating crappy takeout. I like feeling overstuffed, and the headiness the feeling brings me. I think I've gotten as large as I can on my own. So I'll need help from you and Tony to get...um. Larger."

Steve visibly gulped. "Um. H...how much larger are we talkin'--?"

Bruce glanced Tony's way, and Tony encouraged him with a nod. "Um. To a point where I can  stay sedentary. I'm happy at home - I'm happy here. With us. I don't want to run anymore, and I want to feel grounded. Literally. So--"

"He wants to become immobile," Tony explained, butting in again. "Which is no mean feat, with his metabolism. Even with Bed, even with all the snacking and meals he gets, he's probably leveled off. But if we're talkin' immobility, we're probably addin' another three hundred to him, more or less."

Cap let out a shaky sigh. "Whoa..."

Tony shrugged. "Again, more or less. Depends on what 'immobile' means to a guy like Bruce. 'Course you know," Tony said, sobering. "He's wouldn't be totally immobile, not really." His dark eyes roamed Bruce, emphasizing the seriousness of his next words. "The only way that would happen is if we separated him from the Hulk."

"Which I'm not asking for," Bruce quickly piped. "That's not my goal."

"Good. 'Cause that's more than my paygrade. What'dya think, Spangles?" Tony turned to Steve. "You in, or what?"

"I...I'm not even sure." His expression remained pensive before hovering between Tony and Bruce. "I think I want to understand what that means before I agree to it. It'll change our 'rules,' our dynamics, the team--"

"Absolutely," Bruce agreed. "But I guess...I'd like to retire, if that's okay. From the team. I've already spoken with the university--"

"What?"

"You have?"

Bruce motioned for his boyfriends to calm down.  "I'm not giving up teaching, I'm just switching to an online format. I'll still be an adjunct but I won't teach in person or in front of a classroom. And besides..." He sighed, but a small smile teased his lips. "I won't be mobile enough for a classroom. At least that's what I'm hoping."

Tony shared a look with Steve who looked both mesmerized and stunned. But then Tony noticed something else a sly, (dare he say it), evil mastermind grin on Steve's face rivaling their greatest enemies.

"Steve. Your bad boy expression is showing," Tony muttered.

"I know, I know," Steve breathed. "But I kinda I wanna know how soon we can start."

Part two: https://burlybanner.tumblr.com/post/185854349769/syzygy-2

[thegeneralsnotebook]

September Feature: A Tribute to Silver Spanner

A couple of years ago, Emperor Bugle logged on to Reddit and posted the solicitation for the first fully online tournament that had ever been run for the MLP CCG. It would be conducted over the course of three weeks, with matches played over Skype and reported back on the thread. Most audacious of all, it would be conducted according to a quirky ruleset that Bugle had come up with himself. He made the commitment that once this tourney had run its course, another would follow, with a completely different quirk on the rules. He called it Silver Spanner’s Deck Building Tournament, the name coming from a pony who by that point in time had a couple of cards to her name, and seemed a tinkerer of a sort.

By the end of October 2019, Silver Spanner will be embarking upon its 30th iteration, and in spite of having fluctuated somewhat in popularity and participation over the course of that time, it’s still going just fine all these years later. Perhaps even more impressively, Bugle has kept to his promise, delivering not only a brand-new and creatively interesting rule set with every tournament, but also nine especially tough rule sets to really test builders’ creativity. #30 of course promises to another doozy like all of them.

Having been witness to the beginning myself, and having enjoyed several of the earlier instances of the tournament, I thought it appropriate to spend an article looking back on the history of Silver Spanner. This turned out to be even more fascinating of a pursuit than I had expected it to be, as it turned out that a history of Silver Spanner is also a history of the community itself. Finally, I had to pay tribute to the tournament using the method that I know best: by compiling the statistics. Join me, if you will, for a walk down memory lane.

Triumphant Beginnings

It may seem strange when put into perspective, but Silver Spanner has now been around for a little more than three full sets. It was the days of Marks in Time when it first got started, and needless to say, back then things were a little different. Harmony format was still the only way to play the game, and what a different game it was. In fact, I think this line from Bugle’s FAQ on the first tournament might present the best perspective:

Q: Okay, well.. what about the Orange Manes? SOme of them seem pretty strong!

A: Limited options. Unfortunately, almost all of Orange’s Manes are good, and it didn’t feel right to have fewer Orange Manes than any other colour, so I made the best judgement call I could at the moment. However, if enough people ask me to replace Luna: Dream Guide with Apple Bloom before tournament starts, I will do so.

So, indeed, it was a different time. Yet, thinking about the cards and the meta alone doesn’t quite capture everything that was special about that point in the community’s history. Another important distinction was that at that point we didn’t have our Discord server to chat in yet. In fact, most of the community discussion was taking place in Skype at that point. That venerable old Skype room played host to the hype around the Marks spoilers at least, and while I don’t remember exactly when the exodus to Discord happened, it was still a long time before I stopped checking Skype to see what was up.

In those days (as today, really) there was already a thriving trade for casual pickup games over the Internet. With all that was happening, it probably isn’t surprising that Bugle felt there could be room in enough people’s lives to support a single game every week. Clearly he wasn’t wrong, as the first iteration of the tournament attracted sixteen participants, enough for a well-seeded bracket in both the Regular and Novice leagues.

And it is with mention of those leagues that our first pieces of history start to come up. For while in that first tournament the Regular league was highlighted by a number of notable names, it’s the Novice League that I found to be the most interesting.

For some of the names on that list, this was a first humble step in what would eventually turn into a highly successful tenure. For one, woodgazer didn’t spend too much time in the Novice League, and indeed remains one of the most successful Silver Spanner players in the community (more on that at the end). Yet that’s not the most impressive result on this list. I’m looking at /u/ImPancake, who after a few short years would go from Silver Spanner Novice to Continentals Semi-Finalist (and top seed overall) in 2018. Indeed, for many competitors, Silver Spanner was one of the first steps taken on a long road that ended up in physical tournaments and convention playoffs.

The Second Era

When I was going through the various Reddit posts in order to compile the results into a nice neat chart, I was struck by an interesting phenomenon. See, for the first eight tournaments, the player base stayed about the same, fluctuating in size within the group that might be called the Silver Spanner Old Guard. (I was one of those people before surrendering my seat around SS VIII, unable to find the time anymore.) Then, from SS IX to XII, there’s a sudden flurry of new entrants, and some really notable names on that list. Some of them would go on to be pillars of the community, yet here are the first marks they made in online play:

Silver Spanner X was Hithroc’s first kick at things, aside from his own (just as venerable) weekly draft series. Just as with others before, it didn’t take long for him to climb a little higher. He entered into the Regular League almost immediately after his first stint, and hasn’t looked back, even while participating in every Silver Spanner since then. Come November, he’ll have his first foray into a physical tourney in North America when he comes to Ciderfest 2019, and it will be a journey that all started in Silver Spanner. Other notable names that first show up in this era include anamoy, mrzodo aka Joking Luna, Dratta Arcana, Smithers888, and kluij98, most of whom continue their participation up to the present day.

It was also around this time that one of Silver Spanner’s most consequential pieces of legacy first showed up. After its impressive string of success in holding onto a player base and staying active for what was now nearing a year, the tournament was joined on Reddit by another repeating event, that of course being the Core Constructed or “CoCo” events put on by Commentary is Magic. While CoCo is a very different event from Silver Spanner, aiming for nearly the opposite purpose, it is still undeniable that the earlier tournament blazed the trail, in showing that there was a sufficient online community to allow a repeating online tournament to succeed. Both have held their own in the online space for the community, catering in their own way to the desires of its players.

The Third Era

Nor indeed was the sudden onset of new participants that happened around Silver Spanner IX-XII the last time that was going to happen. It was only a matter of time before there was another changing of the guard of sorts, with a new crop of participants coming in around SS XX. This new freshmen class has been a bit more of a steady trickle than a sudden rush like the start of Era 2, but it too has its share of notable names. People like Fizzban, elfinpen, and Horceye, names that are now commonplace on Discord, getting their start here.

Silver Spanner really has been a chronicle of the growth and development of the online community for the game. The record of its history is the record of the game’s history, and surely it brings up fond memories for everyone who has participated in it up to now. I know that it does for me. So, as promised, in celebration of the upcoming 30th running of the tournament, here are some stats.

Player records up to SS XXVIII

On the linked sheet, I have a couple of statistics tracked, and you’re more than welcome to sort by the various columns to see how you stack up when compared to all of the other players who have played in the tournament. These numbers are pulled from all twenty-eight results posts that Bugle has put up over the years. In addition to the main numbers, I thought that I would give out a few awards of recognition myself, for the few who have earned their fame (or infamy):

Silver’s Best Friends (Most tournaments entered) Woodgazer & KingUtopia (tied at 27)

Most Total Wins Woodgazer (55)

Highest Overall Win % Grand Pause (88%)

Highest Win Differential (+/-) (explanation below) Godot (+26)

Bane of the Scorekeeper (Most Ties) Hithroc (5)

The “+/-” metric above is one that perhaps bears a little explanation. This is a new one that I’m trying out, where each win is worth +1 point, each tie is worth +½ point, and each loss is worth -1 point. Thus to an extent one’s +/- score is the differential between one’s total wins and one’s total losses. This has an advantage over win percentage since players that don’t play a lot of games can’t have a high score. The downside is that if you do play a lot of games, it’s easier to get a high +/- score even if your win rate is only marginal. In this case, Godot’s 60 SS games compares with GP’s 25. Thus even though GP’s overall win rate is higher, the absolute difference between the numbers is higher for Godot. I haven’t yet decided if there is any extra information being offered in the new metric, but I thought I may as well include it here.

In any event, Bugle, the conclusion of this article has to go to you. Thank you for all of the work that you’ve put in to keep Silver Spanner going over the course of these years. It’s served as a convenient vector to get more people into the online community, a great way for veterans to test out their deck building skills, and of course a venue where we all can just revel in some absurdity now and then. Never mind the anticipation over the new set; there’s always been a surprise every month, as we’ve learned whatever the new rules are going to be.

So here’s to 30 Silver Spanners, and here’s to many more!

[cyclone-rachel]

Comics Rachel Owns Masterlist

Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks

·       Adventures of Supergirl

·       Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, Volume 1

·       DC Showcase Magazine

·       Doom Patrol volume 1

·       Kingdom Come

·       Legion Lost (non New 52)

·       Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century volume 1

·       Legion of Super-Heroes: The Choice

·       Legion: Secret Origin

·       Protocol: Orphans

·       Smallville Season 11, Volume 5

·       Superboy’s Legion volumes 1 and 2

·       Supergirl: The Silver Age volume 1

·       Supergirl Candor

·       Supergirl and the Legion: Dominator War

·       Supergirl New 52, volumes 1-3

·       Supergirl Rebirth, volume 1

·       Superman: American Alien

·       Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Volume 1

·       Superman Giant #8

·       Superman-Supergirl Maelstrom

·       Swamp Thing Giant #1

·       The Legion volume 1

·       Weapon X volume 1

·       World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Holiday Special #1

Indie

·       Dark Ages #1 (Dark Horse)

·       The Quantum Age #1, 2, 3, 6 (Dark Horse)

·       Clone #4, 9 (Image)

·       Fear Agent #1 (Image)

·       Bloodstrike #1 (Image)

·       Ghost Station Zero #1 (Image)

·       Protectors Inc. (Image)

·       Saga #1 (Image)

·       Jupiter’s Legacy #1 (Image)

·       The Wicked + The Divine #1 (Image)

·       Lazarus #1 (Image)

·       Orphan Black #1-5 (IDW)

·       Orphan Black Helsinki #1-5 (IDW)

·       Orphan Black Deviations #1

·       Transformers: Robots in Disguise #1 (IDW)

·       Star Wars Adventures #1 (IDW)

·       Wynonna Earp Legends: Doc Holliday #1 (IDW)

·       Wynonna Earp: Season Zero #1 (IDW)

·       Wynonna Earp #1 (IDW)

·       Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency #1-3, 5 (IDW)

·       18 Days #1 (Graphic India)

·       Atomic Robo #1 (IDW)

·       The Pitiful Human-Lizard #17 (Chapterhouse)

·       Men of Wrath #3 (Icon)

·       Rachel Rising #19 (Abstract Studio)

·       The Slab #1 (Double Take)

·       Home #1 and 2 (Double Take)

·       Word Warriors #1

·       Bob’s Burgers #9 (Dynamite)

·       The Librarians #2 (Dynamite)

·       Doctor Who Free Comic Book Day (Titan Comics)

·       The Massive: Ninth Wave (Dark Horse)

·       The Legend of Korra Free Comic Book Day

Marvel

·       Cyclops #6

·       Guardians 3000 #2

·       Edge of Spider-Verse #4

·       House of M #1-4

·       Spider-Verse #1

·       Battleworld Siege #1

·       X-Men Legacy #1

·       Battleworld Secret Wars Journal #1

·       Digitek #3

·       Cyberspace 3000 #1

·       Civil War 2 #1

·       Monsters Unleashed #1

·       The Amazing Spider-Man Free Comic Book Day

·       Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps #1

·       Doop #5

DC

·       The Terrifics #1-8, Annual #1, 10-12

·       Legends of Tomorrow #6

·       Dial H For Hero #2

·       Midnighter #6, 7, and 8

·       Sonic Disruptor #1

·       Spanner’s Galaxy #1

·       Justice League of America #1

·       Justice League Elite #1

·       Justice League Gods and Monsters (#1 for Superman and Wonder Woman)

·       Justice League No Justice 1-4

·       Justice League Odyssey #1-5

·       Justice League Rebirth #1

·       Justice League: Dark Reflections #2

·       Justice League United #3

·       Justice League 3001 #1

·       52 #10

·       Infinite Crisis #7

·       Animal Man #18, 19, and 28

·       Heroes in Crisis #1

·       Infinity Man and the Forever People #4, 5

·       Blue Beetle #10

·       Adventure Comics #410

·       Supergirl (pre-Crisis) #14

·       Supergirl and Batgirl #63

·       Supergirl (post-Crisis) #6, 35, 45, 47, 51, 52, Annual #1, 59

·       Supergirl (New 52) #24, 28, 36

·       Supergirl Rebirth #1, 8, Annual 1, 13, 17, 19-27

·       Wonder Woman Rebirth #1, 8, 14

·       Wonder Woman Day #1

·       Catwoman #49

·       Kamandi Challenge #1

·       Mother Panic #1

·       Green Lanterns #23-31

·       Green Lantern Corps #18-20, 39-40

·       Red Lanterns (New 52) #38

·       Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #223, #227, #256

·       Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #1

·       Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #341

·       Superman: World of New Krypton #10

·       Superman Presents: The Krypton Chronicles #3

·       Superman (post Crisis) #1, 699

·       Superman (New 52, Action Comics) 7-9, (New 52) 35

·       Superwoman #1 (Rebirth)

·       Superman (Rebirth) #9

·       New Super-Man #1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12

·       World of Krypton #1

·       LEGION #1, 14, 17, 23, 27, 35, 39, 41, 52, 70

·       Superman Secret Origin #1

·       Metropolis SCU #2

·       Legionnaires (miniseries) #1

·       Legionnaires #1, 2, 8, 62-65

·       Legion Worlds #1

·       The Legion Secret Files 3003

·       Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century #10, 18

·       Legends: Cosmic Boy #1-2

·       Timber Wolf #4

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (pre-Crisis) 273, Annual #1 (1982), 299, 303, 311

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (post-Crisis) 15-17, 19, 23, 28, 30, 32, 34, 35, Annual #3, 40, 48

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (90s) 15, 43, 56, 104, 106-108

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (pre-New 52, not sure where to classify this one) 45

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (Mark Waid run) 1-7

·       Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #21

·       Legion of Super-Heroes (New 52) 0-1, 6-9, 23

·       Legion Lost New 52 #0, 5-9

·       Forever Evil #2, 4

·       The Phantom Stranger #14

·       The New 52 #1

·       Divergence #1

·       DC Nation #0

·       Earth 2 World’s End #23

·       New 52 Future’s End 15, 24, Wonder Woman #1, Pandora #1, Birds of Prey #1

·       Multiversity Justice Incarnate #2, The Just #1, Ultra Comics #1

·       Convergence (Action Comics, Wonder Woman, Infinity Inc #1)

·       Batwoman Rebirth #1

·       New 52 Suicide Squad #0

·       ARGUS #3

·       Grayson #11, 14, 16, 19

·       Batman New 52 #39

·       Martian Manhunter Rebirth 1 and 2

·       Vibe New 52 #6-8

·       The Flash Rebirth #1

·       Death of Hawkman #1

·       Hawk and Dove New 52 #5

·       Batman White Knight Special Edition

·       The Ray #2, 3

·       Phantom Lady and Doll Man #2

·       Vigilante #48

·       Constantine the Hellblazer 7-10, New 52 #13

·       Teen Titans New 52 #4

·       Mister Terrific #5

·       Camelot 3000 #2

·       Green Arrow Rebirth #1