Absolute Martian Manhunter #5
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 04:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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I think that there's nothing wrong with being influenced by comics primarily, but it can lead to a little bit of an incestuous thing where the ideas are constantly recycled and kind of the same thing over and over again. And I think, especially with something like The Ultimates and the Absolute Universe, you really want to be drawing not just from other works of art, and other types of stories, but also from life. -- Deniz Camp
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Just one thing: 02 September 2025
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 06:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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It's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
JLI 12: the sordid saga of Max Lord
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 05:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Having recently done a read-through of JLI/JLE, it's struck me that Max Lord is so deeply mischaracterized by modern fandom that even the corrective "he's not a villain!" takes are highly flawed. Take an article about the new iteration of the character sponsoring the Justice Gang in James Gunn's new cinematic universe. The original Lord is said to be "get-rich-quick-scheming" and "originally portrayed as a sleazy, if not particularly cunning businessman who sought to make a name for himself – and a dollar – by uniting and subsequently directing the titular team."
( Actually, no. That's not the truth, Ellen. )
( Actually, no. That's not the truth, Ellen. )
Fic: Philip Jordan's Inappropriate Desert Fantasies (Secret of the Sahara;El Hallem/Philip;Explicit)

PG SLASH: Sixteen Years - Lan Wanji/Wei Wuxian, The Untamed (TV)

Crafts
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 02:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Do-it-yourself prosthetic leg.
The medical industry has been screaming bloody murder for some years about how bad it is for people to make prostheses outside the medical racket, that are actually useful and affordable. It freaks them out to lose control over disabled people's bodies. Fuck 'em. Nobody is entitled to a captive audience or customers. By all means, make your own for 1% of the cost. 3D-printed hands have been around for a while now and exist in many variations.
The medical industry has been screaming bloody murder for some years about how bad it is for people to make prostheses outside the medical racket, that are actually useful and affordable. It freaks them out to lose control over disabled people's bodies. Fuck 'em. Nobody is entitled to a captive audience or customers. By all means, make your own for 1% of the cost. 3D-printed hands have been around for a while now and exist in many variations.