This version of Superman is called power man while he’s like 14
I had a great idea which I'm putting in my DC universe notes: Power Girl is meant to be Super Girl from another universe, right? Well, let's play with that and really make them distinct. Power Girl comes from an alternative universe where she's the older cousin. On her earth, she came to earth first and superman came second. That would really make her distinct from Supergirl, and it might give a good existential angle if Power Girl gets stuck on the main DC earth, and can't get back to her own world.
Also a group of lizards is called a lounge so would you call a group of these a pack lounge?
i've always combined the two main interpretations of kobolds as lizards and dogs into one in my head
lizard dog.. log.. or dizard
Let the infection spread
when ur mutuals are mutual with each other
pro: squad con: i saw this post like 18 times today
Probably not the best place to put it, but today for some reason I feel like complaining about it, so I guess it’s coming onto Tumblr now… so here is the story of how I got kicked out of the Colosseum in Rome when I was nine years old.
Somethings the say, about 5 1/2 years ago my family decided to go on a trip to the area of Italy, Rome, France and a couple other places in that area that I can’t remember. But they’re not important. What’s important is that I was (and still am) a energetic, jumpy and nerdy kid. The flight was an overnight flight from California to Rome. And my small dumbass couldn’t go to sleep because 1. I didn’t want to and 2. (and this is no fault of his) The man sitting next to me, was watching Star Wars. In Italy it is daytime when it’s night time and my sleep schedule is already complete and utter crap.
So with that all nighter my family decides all together with my agreement that we should go explore Rome. After spending most of the day sightseeing, he finally arrived at the Colosseum. Because of the very little amount of energy already had and all the walking, I got really sleepy. So while my parents can go and keep exploring the Colosseum and my Tia and my siblings decide to stay with me until I wake up.
Cue to me, and the small group of my family, being forced out of the Colosseum for some reason and we don’t speak Italian (which they were speaking to us for some reason, even though we question them in English), so we don’t know where this one guy working there was shoving us out. The one thing we do now is that I needed to use the bathroom. And not in the usual little sense of it probably be good to go soon, no, this was if I didn’t go in the next couple minutes, I would crap my pants. We try to tell him this, so that if they do show us our at least we’ll just have to wait for our parents to figure things out, but no!
He fucking kicks us out and forces me and my brother to wander around through bars, stores and other places to try to see if they speak English to tell us directions and/or have a bathroom!!!
After waiting outside for maybe about two hours our parents finally came back out. We go to confront the guy that kicked us out for why he kicked it out. In the entire conversation we had with him, he only lied!!
He didn’t want to directly speak to us, so we had to have one of the workers translate what he was saying. And then he said that us, the two kids, who were too distracted on the phone to do anything being my siblings, one who was asleep (me) and another, my Tia who is a full grown adult that looks and is someone who could never tell a lie or do something bad, had tried to steal something from someone purse!!
I didn’t completely blame him in the moment until later, when two things became apparent to me
1. Where I were sleeping and my family was waiting with me was in NO area near anyone.
And 2. The Colosseum has the special types of tours that aren’t part of the normal tours, and apparently from what my parents told me the place that we were sitting was in the way what is a Tours in someway.
I know I may just still be mad about it after a long time, but I don’t think that security card thought that we were causing any problems. He was a paid off or told to move us for no reason other than that we were in the way of making more money!!
And I think the worst crime with that not just did he kick us out for no reason, but he kicked us out and left us to wonder for about half an hour trying to find a bathroom whole nine-year-old felt like he was gonna burst. So if the guy made a mistake I’m sorry that I’m mad, but if he didn’t, I’m sorry that I hate him.
I only really felt like putting it here can understand my freaking irritation with the Colosseum now.
That and the flash and superman are the two most comedic, nerdy heroes who really care for their villains…
…That, and if there was a my adventures with flash, we would have and ADHD anime nerd flash who has a villain who has at least once been gay.(captain cold)
I know the show runners of MAWS want to focus on the superman mythos (and I agree) but if i were to choose one hero to make a cameo it'd be the flash only because i think the superman v flash race is the kind of silly fun this series has going for it
This is really interesting to think about.
I really like what this physicist, Lamar Glover, has to say in Behind the Curve.
+ this part from Spiros Michalakis:
Continuing on that note I feel that there is also horror in surviving these encounters. There the death that’s awful but there is also fear in knowing that you experienced that while all others died. We live in a society we’re people are getting hurt left and right while others never can’t even imagine that pain. It hurts to know people died, or even that people live through this and we just sit here, as they do work that will probably bring us something that we won’t even think is that important, even with all the blood it holds.
changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.
I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.
Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.
No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.
But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?
Do you think they got the idea of vampires being able to charm people because of how cute normal vampire bats are…
Cause if so, I kinda understand
Look at these adorable blood stealing fucks
Fall as we laugh at your misfortune
That’s what I think makes him such a good Superman, they make his fear be his own powers. They make the reason for his abilities, be his essential dread and his wish to be normal makes sense with it too.
MAWS clark has me so devastated actually because he’s so kind, he’s so full of love for earth and all the people who care about him and it’s his biggest fear that he is a weapon. lois and jimmy are scared for him to see the hologram with the other, evil supermans because they just know that it would break him. they know it themselves it’s his worst fear to be a weapon! to be capable of such hurt! gosh, he just wants to save people, that’s all he wants
I like the idea that Billy and Marvel are completely separate beings but still act the same so almost every interaction is just
Billy (Golf announcer voice): And there goes Two face, or now both one face as they take the lead on the three legged race. Unfortunate that a good man like Harvey Dent became such a violent criminal after his accident.
Marvel (Also in Golf announcer voice): It comes from his unassisted D.I.D., which he most likely hid as it developed as D.I.D. is seen in quite a negative within modern society, leaving many ostracized and falling through the cracks of medical assistance, instead of being helped to not cure it but to assist in living with it.
Billy: Well said Marvel, now it looks like they’re trying to take a leap and-
Both half’s of Two Face fall knocking down most of the others like dominos
Billy and Marvel: (Trying their hardest to not laugh and failing miserably.
I just remembered an idea I had where a bunch of DC characters who are kinda like 2 people in 1 body get temporarily separated, without any of the consequences that would normally come with that. They are then put into sort of game show to see how well they work together with their ‘other half’, and it is broadcasted across the world.
People like Etigran, Two Face, Creeper and more all get seperated. Some challenges they face include the newly wed game, three legged races, and various other cooperative games.
There’s tons of arguments, fighting, and a general lack of beating any challenges.
Billy and Captain Marvel work together so beautifully that whoever started the whole thing decided they didn’t need to keep playing so they spend rest of the game narrating together like those sports announcers. Billy’s a radio host and has great chemistry with Marvel so they’re extremely entertaining.
Occasionally they will take a few minutes to roast the contestants kind of like those old muppet men. It’s great and the viewers love it so much they forget their shock over the whole ‘Captain Marvel is using a young boy as his host/anchor to this realm’ thing.
Multiple contestants try to kill their other half. When they fail Billy and Marvel say “Womp womp” in sync.