think fast

they/them // ao3: batsiknow

[mr-badjokes]

Bruce (and Dickie) doodles

I really like the idea of the gauntlets having claws, I think it looks cute

[krisdrawss]

Finished Spectre 92 over the hiatus and these fellas have been on my mind :)

[nibblewinger]

wanted to draw more lulu belle and her papa

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

How many vampires do you think have been hit by a car backing up in a parking lot because the driver couldn't see their reflection

I’ve never considered it but you’re really shining light on what’s probably a very serious issue

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[ginkodraws]

hot lantern summer

[needlesknick-knacks]

Once i read all of golden age and silver age and bronze age and pre-crisis in general and post crisis and new52 and rebirth and all the different events and crossovers and learn all of the writers’ histories so i am aware of their biases and influences when creating those stories and familiarise myself with the cultural/social/political climate of when those comics were written to be able to understand and analyse them well from both a watsonian and doylist perspective it’s over for you all

[polder-gast]

Valerie doodles

In a perfect world Echopraxia includes another 200 or so interludes where Sengupta discovers more Valerie-related videos, classified documents, experiment logs, etc and shares them with Brüks. Some of those interludes would be 5000 words long and have excerpts from papers written on Valerie. Brüks would look through results from Valerie’s SPECT scans and cardiac enzyme panels from different points in her captivity and do his little “oh my god we tortured her” thing. And both of them would end up having horrific biblically themed sleep paralysis episodes with Val as the sleep paralysis demon because they got subliminally programmed from watching too much Valerie content

[polder-gast]

Wanted to see a Simon Fraser training slideshow with Valerie demonstrating the physiological side effects of Anti-Euclideans. Fixed dilated pupils is the easiest one to spot (just ask Sachita Bhar!)

My headcanon is that lab raised reconstructed vampires all have completely fucked circadian rhythms and chronic eye strain from being in artificially lit environments pretty much 24/7 (I don’t think humans would give them lights out time for sleep because not being able to visually monitor a vampire in a dark/dim cell for even a couple of hours each day seems to be a security risk even with other protocols of surveillance in place). Jukka Sarasti probably feels better with his dark visor on.

[polder-gast]

Valerie prehistoric AU again. Val’s mom is based on Janna from Orientation Day because I liked their interactions in that story a lot.

I think infant Wattsian vampires would probably look & feel less off-putting than adult ones. Watts said something about ancient vampires parasitizing human social groups and making humans give birth to and raise their offsprings like cursed cuckoos and I’ve been thinking about that ever since. My headcanon is that infant/toddler vampires definitely seemed “off” to humans but the difference wasn’t enough to provoke a immediate “kill it with fire” reaction (or an “ewww I’m not breastfeeding that” reaction). Eye difference would have been subtle for the first couple years of life (eye colors change a lot during childhood even for humans). Vasoconstriction noticeable but not so, um, corpse-like. Deciduous teeth probably looked more like human baby teeth but adult teeth would come in early (4-5 yr?) and sharp.

Judging by Valerie’s canonical ability to imitate Janna’s voice and predict the exact things people were going to say (tone and all), watching a baby vampire getting her first words would probably be a horrifying experience. Well, not “kill it with fire” horrifying, but still far from wholesome. Jim Moore said Vampires have idiomatic speech patterns and Val did use a lot of stock phrases (interestingly Jukka didn’t; he felt a lot more…well-socialized) so my headcanon is that they are gestalt language processors.

Since the human retina and visual cortex go through a huge amount of development during infancy & childhood, ancient vampires probably weren’t born with full blown Crucifix Glitches ready to kick in and kill at any moment. Kids tend to have lower seizure threshold as well as less acute visual processing abilities so that could lead to some interesting implications... Another thing is that photosensitive & pattern-sensitive epilepsies in humans usually don’t present until middle childhood to late teens (mediated by many other factors but still).

I really really really hope we’ll get to see more vampire physiology in Omniscience,,,,,,is that an unrealistic expectation? Will I even live long enough to see that book come out??

[polder-gast]

Prehistoric AU little Valerie doodles.

I feel like infant Wattsian vampires probably vasodilate more frequently than adult/subadult ones. Expecting humans to just raise creepy corpse-cold infants/toddlers with offputting reflexes without resorting to fatal neglect or infanticide seems to be an unreliable reproductive strategy. If people react to kid vampires the way they react to adult vampires (EWW WTF IS WRONG WITH HER WE NEED TO KILL HER WITH FIRE + PLEASE GOD DONT LET HER NOTICE ME I NEED TO STAY AS FAR FROM THIS MONSTER AS POSSIBLE) I doubt the whole cuckoo thing could work. A more human appearance in early life helps with parent-child bonding (one sided) and makes it more likely for the humans to invest energy and resources in the survival of their vampire kids. By the age of 5 or 6 though I think the vampire traits would become quite obvious (but can still be rationalized away by a concerned mother). Anyway. Here’s little Val practicing her apex predator skills. Her mom is Janna from Orientation Day.

[polder-gast]

St. Valerie & Portia, or the End to Loneliness

Go aspidontus girl go snap that arm

(I know Portia probably doesn’t really look like that texture-wise but it’s hard to make that oily grey spilled paint look pop at my skill level,,,,,,, plus you have more fun drawing Portia pixels on a blobby surface

Time to study anatomy because I have no idea how to draw a skeletal creature with highly defined steel cable muscles and the vampires deserve better (👈prey mentality)

[polder-gast]

Idk what possessed me to draw this

And yes that is the “Sit. Please.” scene from Orientation Day,,,,im obsessed with it im obsessed with Valerie

[polder-gast]

Valerie and Dan Brüks best friends forever (?)

I imagine Val to be around 205 cm maybe even 210 cm and Jukka to be around 200cm.

[sol-el]

It is you who should be frightened, Kal-El. Of what this clearly corrupted world might do to you. Of the sort of man it may be turning you into.

[damicest]

Tomorrow man Jon having sex with Clark

Who doesn’t know he’s Jon

Oh, this. This specifically. A Clark who denies his attraction to other Kryptonians becuase 95% of the ones on Earth are related to him, running into Tomorrow Man and it's... almost like plausable deniability; he doesn't look any further into who the new hero with Kryptonian powers is. Doesn't even question why Tomorrow Man won't take the mask off or give his real name when they start fucking. Jon having to bite back calling him dad, settling on sir. Ugh

[polybatcest]

i think the supers should all just give up on trying to be discreet about their sex lives around each other. all of 'em just accepting that their whole family will be eavesdropping every time they have sex. if your dad's gonna hear you fucking your boyfriend just as clearly whether you're in the bedroom next to his or on the other side of the planet, may as well have sex in the comfort of your own bed, right? and if it's an unspoken truth among them all that they sometimes jerk off listening to each other have sex... well, no one else needs to know about that. least of all their partners. don't wanna make things weird, right?