In brightest day, in blackest night, why do people think I'm white? Constantly fighting the urge to run away into the nearby Welsh countryside and build a tiny house. Bi, aroace-spec. (Non-binary, they/them, ADHD and NVLD (nonverbal learning disorder), neurodivergent and proud. In my 20’s. Okinawan/Italian/British/reluctantly American. I do not live in the US. You can find my art on my other blog, whirlwind-art, my memes on nvld-memes, and my dream smp blog is skullasticarson.
Some people have asked me if I can publish my mapmaking tools. So I developed a software. 🙂
Here is the result:
Holding the laptop’s power button down because it’s crashed and there’s no other way to turn it off feels so unsettling. It makes me feel like I’m holding a cushion over its face while the life slowly ebbs out of it.
Only, he's not very good at it. He looks fucking terrifying, and when people see him they tend to run towards the actual danger to get away.
So he's hanging out, invisible, on a random cities rooftop, when a pair of kid vigilantes plop down and start complaining how their mentors don't trust them ecause they haven't had any real combat experience. But to get experience, they need to be out there!
So while these teenagers plan something monumentally stupid, Dan realizes he has a unique opportunity.
Dan becomes a training villain.
A villain that specifically is meant to test kid vigilantes.
He does stupid, petty villain shit and the adult heroes quickly realize that this villain, instead of hurting their kid sidekicks, is teaching them between blows.
Dan's powers are nothing to sneeze at, so a kid vigilante holding their own against him for at least four minutes is considered impressive.
But he never, ever, hurts the kids.
There was an incident where another villain hurt a kid in front of Dan.
No one knows where that villain is.
I? Love this? Like an actual trained Adult Hero would be able to take one long look at this Terrifying Walking War God of a man and go "he... you're say you stopped him from 'stealing toys from a community center'? This guy right here." "Yes. It was close but we did it!" "........ I see."
Like? Cannonically Santa exists. Dan probably teams up with him every year to "Steal Christmas" (oh noooooo~) just to be defeated by the kiddos like a yearly exam. Cause Santa can legit SEE he's on the Nice List Now.
Other villians are like? Oh so he's a pushove- *chokes as an unbreakable grip slams shut around their throat like a bear trap* "No."
He keep apprenticing Heros who are going through that "I've lost faith in the Light" phase. Keeping them at a place they can come back from. I LOVE this AU.
Looks for signs of stress or unhealthy hero/sidekick relationships and hunts down the heroes for the equivalent of parent teacher conferences.
Like, the kids are p unaware that he's actually one of their teachers.
Basically to adult the entire situation looks like
Yes!!! Dan has big scary growls but putting him under a microscope for a second makes you realize he’s literally all bark and no bite.
I would LOVE to see Dan being a regular “villain” of Young Justice. Dan would be DELIGHTED to fight Superboy, Impulse, And Robin. Even better add Cissie and Secret into the mix!
Dan carefully teaching Superboy how to better use his TTK and laser vision when needed.
Dan making extremely elaborate plans to give the Robin enrichment and help him flex his smarts in a way that helps him learn new skills.
So much could be done with this!!!
One time Dan hears Superboy cry out in pain after Metallo managed to successfully capture him.
Dan sees red.
IT IS TIME FOR MY BOY
Y’know who Dan becomes sudden and surprise best friends with? Waylon Fucking Jones
He’s been running his training villain shtick for a while, people are learning his villain name
(He went with Dan-ger because he spent those years getting better not thinking of cool secret identities)
And then one day he gets a surprise call from another minor villain, Killer Croc
He just had a run in with Roy Harper, one of the kids Dan tangles with, and he’s in a bad place. Waylon doesn’t have the same freedom of movement Dan does, but he wants someone to check in on the kid
And like FUCK is he asking any of the heroes who got Roy to a place where he was looking for death
Dan agrees, makes a note, does a couple wellness checks
(Roy thinks he’s being bullied by small time villains because Talking About Feelings is actually still bad and scary and Dan respects that)
Keeps Waylon in the loop, since the guy asks
Waylon mostly only gets to actually talk with the kids once they’ve officially crossed the villain line, so he’ll hit Dan up for some info once in a while, see if Dan knows anything important
Dan finds he has a lot in common with Waylon these days, and it’s nice to talk to someone who a) isn’t a kid and b) doesn’t judge his mild villainy
(Most villains think Dan’s either too full of himself for a wussy kid villain or have no fucking clue why he holds himself back. One usually leads to the other)
Waylon and Dan team up occasionally for some recreational enrichment of the former Robins
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The adult heroes though? Well, no one talks about it anymore
There was one JL meeting all about Dan after they saw him snap Metallo in half with his bare hands, where they review all the footage from the kids’ missions
They try and work out his actual power set, made harder because a lot of them do know Dan’s going easy on the kids and specifically training them to find weak points and shit
The way he always dips when an adult hero moves in has also been noticed, and they’re no longer convinced he’s intimidated
(Good for them, he never tried to pretend too hard)
Dan’s officially classed as Not A Threat, but the special classification that means it’s because he doesn’t want to be, not because he isn’t capable, and Batman makes new murder plans
It becomes the official sign that a young hero has fully transitioned to an adult hero; they recognize that Dan has been playing with them the whole time
Dan notes the switch too, and doesn’t play-train with them anymore unless he’s asked
His relationship to the adult heroes he mentored is super different from the other adult heroes though; they’re not gonna tell the next group of kids what happened, but depending on how well each of them took the news that he was testing them out…
Well, they like their Uncle Dan
They all know how he reacts if anyone actually seriously hurts the kids, and quite a few aren’t above calling him in to help if the mentors are unavailable (or just unwanted)
I can imagine some of the villains figure it out pretty fast and get. SO offended! How dare you! Make villains look bad! What are you, you using our name!
And then there are the anti heroes and villains with morals who don't touch kids. That are like. Nah guys pretty cool. We approve. Why do this instead of being an actual teacher to them?
fucking
FUCKING
so y'all know how creepy and not-child-safe Slade was towards Dick and Raven? to put it very lightly
Slade moves to be creepy and suddenly Dan is just T H E R E
No words.
No growling.
Surrounding animals and bugs shut the fuck up.
Everything goes quiet.
Dan's ominous red eyes only focus on Slade.
Slade...backs away slowly from Dick.
Dick, who still thinks Dan is a villain, finds himself hiding behind Dan without knowing why.
"You know what I am," Dan says, very, very quietly, "And you know what I'll do to you if you pull this again."
His voice never raises. It doesn't have to.
With the total silence heralding his arrival, the words carry over loud and clear.
Slade vacates the premisis.
He's a mercenary, not an idiot. He knows Dan has been holding back, knows the man is capable of near or above Superman levels of destruction.
Knows he does not know Dan's actual weakness.
Yeah, Slade knows what Dan is.
The man is lethal.
And while Slade dances with Death, he does not seek it.
huh mini fic look at that.
Daryl and Marlin, our ship cats! It's Marlin's second season sailing (though he's been with us three years- got locked at the seaport last season for crimes) and Daryl's first! What sweet babies 💖
The people have spoken: What Crimes Has Locked This Poor Soul Away
You are Marlin, ship's cat and mascot of the tallship Lady Washington. It is the summer of 2021, you are about a year old, and full of Mischief.
Lady is docked in the Port of Everett, and no one is paying attention to you- never mind the fact that they're doing their jobs and getting money so they can keep pampering you. No, they're not paying attention to you Right This Instant, so you decide you want to take a little jaunt off the ship and explore on your own.
In addition to the marina, the waterfront, and all manner of other delights, the Port of Everett also has a Naval base, so you decide to check it out! See what all the fuss is about.
Of course, wandering kitties without the proper credentials aren't allowed on high security Naval bases, so when the Marines inevitably capture you and ask you where your people are and what you're doing here and how you got here, you just curl up cutely and bat your eyes and meow the most pitiful meow because these new people are paying attention to you but not the Right attention, no one's even petting you!
They call the number on your collar, which goes to the captain of Lady at the time, who... is on leave. In Florida.
"Ma'am? Is this your cat?"
"Oh god yeah where was he?"
"A high security government facility. Can you come pick him up?"
"Considering I'm on the other side of the country, no. Let me get in contact with the crew to send someone."
"Thank you. Also he's very cute."
"I know."
So the captain does just that, playing telephone while trying to find someone to go pick you up. Except by the time a viable crewmember is chosen and calls back to confirm, you've gotten bored and decided you want to leave.
So you clawed the Marine holding you and escaped.
You get a smidgen more exploring time before you're captured again and taken to your crew and back to the boat, but at this point no one is happy including you, because no one pet you the Whole Time you were off adventuring and that's a damn travesty.
And not only that, when you get back to the ship, you're locked up tight in the aft cabin because no one trusts you anymore not to wander off and break into government facilities when they're not looking, and then when the boat gets back to her homeport in Aberdeen, they do you just the WORST injustice and lock you inside there! For the whole winter! And then the following summer, because you are now a Criminal and Criminals don't sail.
Except this season, you made Big Pouty Eyes at everyone, and they caved and let you back on, so you are a very happy kitty now.
With a tracker in your collar so this doesn't happen again.
"Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up."
2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.
3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).
obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!
I think social media should belong to their users
I don't know how to materially put this in place but I think it for sure. Or in some capacity its users should be its clients. When I go to a bar with my friends, I'm paying the bar, it's not selling my tastes in cocktails to the supermarket nearby.
ocd is not fucking destigmatized
"intrusive thought" gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say "if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward". compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you're "crazy". ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as "harmless" (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I've been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.
OCD is not destigmatized.
