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peacerisendove

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A long while ago I had started making a list of all the pop culture references that Kon makes in the Superboy comics after noticing his dialogue is full of them, so finally after starting that first list a year or so ago, I have finished looking through Superboy (1994) and compiled that list.

I set out to do this because I thought it would be fun to see what sort of implanted knowledge Kon has in the '94 comics. I've noticed that he loves talking about Star Trek (his favorite character is clearly Captain Kirk) and Star Wars, he has a varied taste in music, and he mentions Jennifer Lopez three or four times.

Specifically this is a list of references he makes in Superboy (1994) and then Adventures of Superman #506. I do plan on adding the references he makes in other comics (Adventures of Superman, Young Justice and more) in the future, but I figured this was a good stopping point just as I started looking into Adventures of Superman.

#oh this is epic #I love how often he references Star Trek and Star Wars he's just stuffed full of geekery really #Kon El #dcu #reference

nyukaart

6 days left!!!!!!

Thank you for all of the support omggg combined there's about 400 sales that's so crazy!!!!!!

Get your very own vigilantes to look out for you from alien threats or nighttime clowns! Our beloved duo as mini plushies to take anywhere y

#oh my goddddddddd I need them 😭#merch #TimKon #Tim Drake #Kon El #dcu

starbird-blue

#!!!!!!!#gorgeous! the colors are so good #DickRoy #Dick Grayson #Roy Harper #dcu

martyrbat

dc special: cyborg #5

[ID: Nightwing angrily yelling as he points to something off panel. He's being held back by Robin and they're in front of a transparent background. Their poses mock the yelling at a cat meme, which is the second photo. END ID]

#hgfjkdlsgshd #it them #1000% accuracy #Dick and Tim #Dick Grayson #Tim Drake #dcu #batfam #edits

the absolute funniest thing to me in dc fandom is tim fans going 'why is jt fucking everywhere in this fandom I can't get away from him 😩'

and then two and a half degrees of separation over to the left the jason fans are going 'why is td fucking everywhere in this fandom I can't get away from him 😩'

(meanwhile Literally Everyone Else is like 'why are td and jt fucking everywhere in this fucking fandom--')

#also to be clear this is just a joke about mirrored fandom experiences #I like both characters but absolutely also engage in this behavior lmao #ah New 52 sticking these two together like white on rice #I blame you for everything #post tag #fandom wank

possumtion

Roumd…

#crying laughing #someone else said “origin story of fatson” and hgfjkdlsgshd yes good perfect #a fateful choice is made that night when Jason decides not to plant a bomb under the Batmobile but to BECOME KIRBY instead 😤#history will never be the same.....#Fatson Todd #Jason Todd #Bruce Wayne #fan comic #dcu

hood-ex

Titans Hunt #2

Batman: Gotham Knights #25

Nightwing: Alfred's Return

Justice League #54

Batman/Superman: World's Finest #39

#look at Dick initiating hugs :')#Dick Grayson #Alfred Pennyworth #dcu #batfam #DC Comics panels

oldschoolvillageidiot

Reid Wiseman tearing up as he asks NASA to name a crater after his late wife, Carroll, and the rest of the crew floating into a group hug.

#Artemis II #humanity #space #NASA #current events

mrtechlab

Learned recently the Artemis II mission is carrying a 1in. x 1in. piece of the canvas used in the Wright brother’s Flyer, oohhh man. I love technology but I also adore beyond everything the sentiment for the past we attach to advancements, because a lot of people think there’s no need to remember the time we could barely figure out plane flight while blasting off to go briefly orbit the moon.

There’s sometimes a mindset of science purely for advancement, the next big thing, which feels both distinctly human and un-human (inhuman? Uhhhh) It’s our nature to go as far as we can, build until we hit something that can actually stop us. Learn and see it all. But we’re also the people that saw shapes in the stars; we have to give it all meaning. Artemis II is only one part of a much larger plan, but by itself it’s still an incredible feat. Every step of the way has meaning to the world, and taking a single square inch of fabric to make us look back is a really nice reminder of all of it.

#Artemis II #humanity #space #NASA #current events

otiksimr

I remember back in my compulsory education they taught us to use the keyboard like this but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person type like this ever.

otiksimr

this is probably a good post to have a poll huh.

Were you...

Taught how to touch type. Does touch type *(or similar position).

Taught how to touch type. Doesn't touch type.

Not touch how to touch type. Does touch type *(or similar position).

Not touch how to touch type. Doesn't touch type.

Voting ended onApr 6

the *(Or similar position)s is for people that follow the general format except for maybe one finger or a few keys. (I.e you follow this formatting aside from the pinky finger keys, use any finger for spacebar, etc etc).

#I do touch type #mostly like this although looking at the map I'm realizing there are some quirks #I don't use my middle fingers for the bottom row at all #X and C are handled by ring and pointer respectively #Q and Z are also handled by ring not pinky #the one that's really baffling me right now is colon/semi-colon #I'm just realizing that I consistently use ring for that too #why in the flying fuck do I do that?? my pinky rests on that key in the default position!#that makes zero sense at all self #typing #touch typing

ateazure

"and the stars look very different today..."

#oh that's crazy good #Artemis II #space #NASA #Greek mythology #art #current events

emmyistheb3st

Just some Barbara doodles

#super cute #Barbara Gordon #dcu

moveslikekeithrichards

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

flying-lemons

oh do I have the game for you

dancing-crow

I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.

lynati

So I shouldn't click on this link at 1:31am, is what you're saying. ...I will listen this time.

#I lost two hours to this 🙃#games

millionsknives

can you curry anything else or is it just favor

millionsknives

tim

sufficientlylargen

So "currying" a furry animal means grooming or brushing it with a currycomb, which in turn comes from the Old French correier meaning "to prepare [something]", because you prepare a horse for riding by brushing it; it's most commonly applied to horses but you can get e.g. currycombs for dogs.

If I understand correctly, medieval French folk tales considered chestnut-colored horses to be deceitful and tricky; the Old French word for a chestnut or dun horse was fauvel, and so the Old French expression correier fauvel, literally "to brush the chestnut horse", meant lying or being hypocritical for personal gain. This turned into "curry favel" in 15th-century English, and then mutated into "curry favor" over the next few centuries as people forgot about the horse.

So "currying favor" is really "brushing the Horse of Lies", and the reason you can't curry goodwill, or love, or hatred, or even disfavor is that we didn't have Horses for those.

And it follows that we can gain the ability to curry other things by assigning them to Horses.

sufficientlylargen

#google is backing you up on this (via @oldguardians)

I realize, looking back on this post, that regular readers of my blog may have thought I made this up. Making up a ridiculous etymology is certainly the sort of thing I might do; in fact I've been meaning to start a sideblog dedicated solely to sufficiently accurate etymologies, and have a notebook with dozens of them jotted down, I just haven't had the time to do anything with them.

But I want to stress that this is not one of those cases. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the very real etymology of the phrase "curry favor".

The Old French fauve or falve referred to the light-brown color that's sometimes called "fallow" in modern English, but since it also sounded similar to faux, meaning "false", it was also associated with deceit and trickery ; the idiom estriller Fauvel literally meant "to groom the fallow one" but idiomatically meant "to lie or trick people".

Then in the 1300s we get the French poem Roman de Fauvel, a satirical poem about a fauve horse, whose name is derived both from the color and from the fact that FAVVEL is an acronym of Flaterie, Avarice, Vilanie, Varieté, Envie, Lascheté (Flattery, Greed, Vileness, Fickleness, Envy, and Cowardice) - all the different vices that this horse embodies.

Fauvel (purportedly modeled after Enguerrand de Marigny [source], an advisor to King Philip IV) is a sinful, conniving, and very rich horse who has various religious and secular leaders fawning over him and brushing him; it was well-known enough that "grooming Fauvel" came to mean "sucking up to someone powerful" more than just "being evil", and when it was translated into English the grooming was translated as currying, which specifically is grooming a horse with a curry comb [wiktionary]. From this we got the Middle English expression "currying Fauvel", which then mutated via folk etymology (in the "reinterpretation of unfamiliar words as more familiar ones" sense, not the "people are wrong about etymology" sense) into "currying favor".

Curry favor in:

Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor

Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curry%20favor

Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/curry

#oh that's fascinating #etymology #linguistics #English language