Yeah, I mean... I have contemplated how you would do a modern Stargate SG-1 reboot that didn't suck (the militaries' dicks), there's the entire #DCEAUoD, and I genuinely and sincerely still love the majority of Heinlein's work. There is some hypocrisy over here, too!
I am procrastinating on chores, ask me #DCEAUoD questions or offer prompts and I will bullshit for awhile on then after I take this shower and deal with the dishes
I realised Nika in the #DCEAUoD got her surgery like two or three years sooner because her grant to develop her spa was from the Wayne Foundation and gave her WF health insurance, which means as a result she probably had a single disc replacement, not a two disc discectomy and fusion
oh my god though the most amazing thing about this is that it gives us a #DCEAUoD LORE REASON for why their cover story for how Jay met Batman and therefore Bruce Wayne was “stole the tires off the Batmobile” and not “stole the catalytic converter off the Batmobile”!!
the reason Slipper tagged the three of us the #DCEAUoD which is the Epic AU of Doom which is the co-authors collectively being fed the fuck up with DC Editorial and the last 30 years of comics and Writing Our Own. and making Gotham as hilariously, cartoonishly corrupt as it should be is hard!
i am very very cranky and very very bored, ask me things about niq and i's PacRim or the #DCEAUoD?
okay but the funniest thing about the #DCEAUoD is that the butts match reddit conspiracy theory is CLARK'S FAULT. (clark was trolling in the deep whilst also actually sincerely protecting bruce. but he was definitely trolling in the deep while he did that.)
#DCEAUoD has a Tim who is genderfluid and "he" is never wrong for him. other pronouns are sometimes correct and sometimes not, but "he" is the pronoun that is always fine even when it's not accurate!
thank you for IDing the end of the thread, and also Imma drop a #DCEAUoD here just for search purposes lol
currently trying to figure out what pairings in the #DCEAUoD will jumpscare people who *don't* know the three authors and their ids, and I think the big ones are the First Throuple and Roy/Conner? Well, and Roy/Tim because their DCEAUDoD dynamic is SO rooted in The Safehouse At The End of The World.
anyway, if you're wondering where the #DCEAUoD comes into, it's Timothy Drake-Wayne getting cast as Phillip in the semi-pro Gotham theatre's run of it. everyone thinks it's stunt casting! it's not.
watching A Lion In Winter because the #DCEAUoD and god I love both all the banter and also the soundtrack being so fucking subtle and also well-balanced.
"I *am* good with faces but, honestly, it's Chloe's fault," Smallville says, ruefully, when Lois asks, after the third time he comes up with an ID of someone in the background of a photo ludicrously fast. "She implemented the first version of the program when we were in high school." #DCEAUoD
"How many fuckin' people y'think he could tap with the trainin' to assess how you two fuckin' idiots are actually doing, who wouldn't get themselves dead or concussed with y'all in the wind if they came knockin'?" #DCEAUoD
Roy and Tim's relationship also serves to absolutely fucking *baffle* alternate universe Jason, codename Bluejay, when he and #DCEAUoD Jason switch places for a bit, because just. Whaaat? How did *these* two end up *this* close? Also, uh, okay he definitely needs to do a bunch of gender reading.
I started writing a thread in reply to this but I'm just going to pull it out to a top-level #DCEAUoD thread because honestly, it's a little hyperspecific to that universe lol. SO ANYWAY. Roy and Tim's friendship!
…this is basically how #DCEAUoD Roy and Tim end up so close, post-Tower attack, lol. Roy is too fucking busy fishing Jason’s sanity out of the the Pit to be worrying about Tim’s mental health which makes him very restful company for Tim! (everyone else is extremely freaked about Tim’s mental health)
Lois hasn't even figured out what *state* Smallville is from; there's three of them in the Midwest she's identified, and nothing the kid's said has narrowed it down any further. She could just *ask* the kid, but honestly that feels like admitting defeat at this point. #DCEAUoD
"Lex?" Lois says, sipping her coffee and arching a single eyebrow at him.
"My... uh," Clark pauses briefly, clearly floundering. "Boyfriend?"
"That doesn't seem like something you should be asking *me*, kid," Lois says, amused.
Clark sighs, rolling his eyes. "Look, we're—complicated." #DCEAUoD
"What did he do?" Roy asks, wincing. "*Nothing*," Connor says, far more bitterly than Roy would have expected from the sweet kid he met three years ago. "*Everything*. He has rearranged the library three times in the last *week* and if he shoves one more piece of cornbread in my hands and demands an opinion, I am going to commit assault."
Tim laughs. It sounds like gravel. "Roy. What's the fact I was climbing rooftops at seven to stalk Gotham's nightlife well enough I caught Dick showing off enough to recognise Robin as him, *without* Batman noticing me, tell you about me and my childhood?" Tim asks, clearly amused. #DCEAUoD
now, if you're asking *what* the official editorial stance of the Gotham Beat is, you can just go read the fucking article we posted when the news broke, <a>ding dong the clown is dead</a>, or the actual retrospective on why all of Gotham threw a fucking block party for two weeks straight <a>oh thank fuck it's actually, finally, really over</a>
"Oh, I’m definitely not like my father or even my grandfather, who was vastly less of an asshole than dear ol’ Dad but I could give away every last penny of mine, publicly disown Lionel, and join a buddhist temple, and there are people who would call it a cynical tax scheme of Lionel’s." #DCEAUoD
Nika stares at him blankly. "I—*dumpsters*?" and Roy sighs theatrically. "You run with Bats on rooftops and you are very likely to end up in a dumpster at least once every few runs." "*Why*," Nika says, gesturing widely with her arms. "Because the Bats are all assholes who like to fuck with each other and their friends," Roy says, wryly.
"Twelve," Jason mutters, wet and helpless, into Roy's shoulder. "He was *twelve*?"
"I don't think he was *ever* really twelve," Roy says, wry, pained. #DCEAUoD
“The sort of person you might need to kill to protect Clark is the sort of person I’m fine with being dead,” Martha said, her voice harsh. “The sort of person I’d kill myself. Some day you’re going to eat this country’s sins trying to lessen them, Lex. We aren’t letting you eat *ours*.” #DCEAUoD
Lex looked over to smile at Clark. “Clark, it’s fine," Lex said, wryly. "Your father isn't wrong. A nineteen year old without any management experience and a barely relevant degree that hasn't even been officially awarded yet is absolutely a nepotism hire. #DCEAUoD
"No," Lex says, distractedly, as he sets an IV needle in Lois's arm. "For security purposes we built a small outpost there, obviously, but moving the main seed wasn't feasible," he adds, as he starts pushing fluids, and that's the last thing Lex says in English for the next hour. #DCEAUoD
Angela set her laptop down with a thud, more force to it than Lex would have expected, and folded herself into her chair again. "I don't understand," she said, somewhat irritably. "What does a meteor shower, born in it or not, have to do with you being metahuman?" #DCEAUoD
Harley shrugs, palms-up. "Kid, Imma remind you that I survived Mistah Jay—and I promise it *ain't* 'cause he was real nice to me—an' the only reason my girlfriend's skin don't kill me when we get busy is I am *real hard* to kill. #DCEAUoD
