Scedasticity

A little of this and that, mostly fandom. Ask me questions about any of my fics!

[ceescedasticity]

Okay going forward I'm replacing my (extremely cumbersome to type, tumblr refuses to remember it) updates from the actually-reading-the-comics-trenches tag with comics exegesis.

[ceescedasticity]

Wait isn't Ollie supposed to be missing at this point (early Dawn of DC)

[ceescedasticity]

I think my standards for considering something a "tumblr sexyman" are stricter than that wiki's. It doesn't count as a tumblr sexyman if it's clearly sexy by furry standards or monsterfucker standards or whatever and most of the people discussing its sexiness are so inclined. It has to either not be sexy by any well-established standards or many or most of the people discussing it are not otherwise interested in sexiness by its standards. —And also runaway popular on tumblr, obviously.

[without-ado]

Strawberry Full Moon over Ely Cathedral l VeronicaJoPo

[master-john-uk]

29th June 2026. This year's Strawberry Moon was extremely low in the sky, which made it look very large and bright. (A perfect photographic opportunity!)

[penny-anna]

Further questions from the finance team

[zenodotus-xxiv]

bowtie placement?

A

B

C

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

[ceescedasticity]

necktie placement?

A

B

C

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[couldtheycatchkira]

Could Black Scorpion solve the Kira murders?

Could catch Kira, would survive

Could not catch Kira, would survive

Could catch Kira, would not survive

Could not catch Kira, would not survive

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

[ceescedasticity]

I have never seen whatever this is, but I have seen commercials for it — or something very like it — on the Sci-Fi Channel back when it was called that, captured on VHS recordings of episodes of Farscape or MST3K, In Days Of Yore.

So all I know about it besides this picture is the intonation of the Sci-Fi Channel promotional voiceover going "bLack scORPion!"

(Weird the things you remember.)

I am voting can catch will survive because (1) haha, can't believe I remember that, and (2) hidden face, presumably hidden name, I think it would be funny for Light to get beat up by her.

[ceescedasticity]

All the tips I've found on preventing ingrown toenails seem to be intended for people whose nails do not make 90-degree turns directly into the side of the toe.

[valtsv]

i hate it when people ask me to "explain my thought process" like hell if i know

[valtsv]

"what's going on in that head of yours?" nothing i want to be a part of

[oldpaintings]

The Nun of Monza, 1865 by Mosè Bianchi (Italian, 1840--1904)

[ceescedasticity]

The Nun of Monza - Wikipedia

The Nun of Monza - Wikipedia

[ceescedasticity]

Crack theory of the day: Garth was a frequently absent and generally unsatisfactory husband and father during The Titans (1999) in part because of unresolved trauma from the whole… thing where Aquababy was murdered and also immediately before that Arthur was willing to kill Garth to stay alive for his real son.

[todays-xkcd]

All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

Time Change [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball standing behind a lectern.] Cueball: We all hate springing forward, Cueball: but we love falling back.

[Zoomed out view. Cueball is on a raised podium behind a lectern, and Hairy, another Cueball, and Hairbun are standing in front of Cueball (to the panel's left), looking at him.] Cueball: Therefore, we are abolishing the spring time change only. Cueball: We'll gain an hour every year, but never lose one.

[Zoomed back in on Cueball behind the lectern, who has his fist raised] Off-screen voice: Won't that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun? Cueball: Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!

[ceescedasticity]

How about no.

[theonion]

Watching in horror as the wheezing man hacked directly into his palm before grabbing the nearest handrail, local bus passenger Derek Lawson told reporters Thursday that the guy violently coughing across the aisle from him better just have throat cancer. “So help me God, if I get bronchitis right before my vacation because this guy hacking up a lung is not, in fact, succumbing to pharyngeal cancer, I’m gonna lose my shit,” said Lawson, adding that the only reasonable excuse for the man to be unleashing wet, full-bodied coughs all over the 66 westbound bus during rush hour would be a tragic, malignant tumor that posed no threat of spreading a highly contagious virus to other passengers.

Full Story

[super-ion]

Concept: cursed blade rehabilitation center. Destroying a sentient weapon is expensive and highly unethical, so adventurers bring them to the center where highly trained staff can care for them and eventually find them forever homes. It turns out most cursed weapons are products of trauma and are not strictly evil themselves. Some blades turn out to be fiercely protective companions. Others don't even want to be weapons at all, finding joy in simple work like blacksmithing or farming. Most blades just need to be loved.

[super-ion]

A pack of bandits descend upon a seemingly undefended town. But the blacksmith's hammer, the farmer's scythe, the woodsman's axe, they have not forgotten what they once were, and they *will* defend the town that they have come to love.

[super-ion]

This sweet girl has been with us for seven seasons. She was forged in the heart of a volcano and would be ideal for anyone with a preexisting fire affinity (she's a cuddler and is guaranteed to keep you warm in winter). She still loves burning, but it turns out you can only reduce the world to ash once. She would be perfectly suited for forest management that regularly requires controlled burns.

[super-ion]

This weary old soul has grown tired of bloodshed and would much rather spend his days as an ominous decoration in a tavern or common room, a perfect fit for an adventurer looking to leave their dungeon crawling days behind. He likes peoplewatching with his single glowing eye, preferably from high, prominent locations with views of entrances and exits.

[heron-knight]

Dark king Grütmore’s edge of annihilation consumed 10,000 souls in the first era, and as it turns out, statistically a lot of those souls heard stories that never got written down. It works in a library now.

The throngler, however, is just irrevocably fucked up. We put it in a stone in a forest and hoped nobody ever finds it

[ceescedasticity]

Revisiting the Lost Children Newsboy Legion

Okay so, I have in the past described the Newsboy Legion as appearing in Lost Children as a five-retcon pile-up because they are clearly describing themselves as the original Newsboy Legion but their roster does not reflect that.

But! The cloned versions who made up most of the roster as it appears when it appeared were implanted with the memories of the originals, to the point where they initially believed they were the originals. It's not out of the question that the whole orphan island ordeal could scramble things enough to confuse them again. (Although Bobby wasn't a clone and didn't have any implanted memories.)

If that's the case, and if we assume this universe reproduced their major New Earth story beats up to that point, then they dropped out of history more recently than any of the others except Greta — Bobby was introduced in 1994, after but not too long after the cloned Newsboys facilitated Kon's initial escape from Cadmus, and she wasn't there for long. So… in-universe probably like… okay I can't remember if the anniversary specials put a number on how long it's been on Prime Earth since its implied iteration of Death of Superman/Reign of the Supermen. I think it must be no less than five years and not more than ten.

So what are they coming back to?

We've actually seen very little of Prime Earth Cadmus. (STAR Labs seems to have displaced them as the go-to for unethical experiments.) They exist; they created Kon; they presumably cloned Jim Harper but may have really given him a new body this time; Jim Harper hasn't been working for or with them lately; someone named Rodriguez was working there as of the death of Superman. According to a holiday short they were in existence in some form recently.

From this I would conclude that the New Earth plotline where the majority of people associated or previously associated with Cadmus (including the original Newsboys and Dubbilex) are murdered* probably hasn't happened. The part where Jim Harper skedaddled to live in a trailer in New Mexico certainly hasn't.

So… are the original Newsboys still around to take in their clones again? Would the Lost Children Newsboys accept that when their implanted memories seem most prominent?

Hmm.

(*: in a Jimmy Olson Special)

[specialagentartemis]

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.