DreamYolk

Superhero Mira, pressured on all sides to start killing villains by her peers (most of whom do so) her parents (legacy hero’s) her brother (who is a jerk) and the media.

Civilian (no powers) Zoey is the only one who tells her not to kill the villains, instead arresting them and putting them through the courts via gadgets she makes/info about their powers.

Rumi who’s a “Supervillain” (who targets corrupt hero’s and takes away their powers) runs into a burning building and saves Zoey. (Zoey was caught in the crossfire between Mira and Rumi.)

Zoey is obviously working with one of the hero’s, so Rumi takes as much of her gear as she can along with Zoey to get info. (She intimidates but won’t hurt her.)

Mira assumes she kidnapped Zoey and is planning on torturing her. She ends up finding them a week later where Rumi is literally on her knees begging Zoey to leave her secret lair, no, stop, why are you taking apart my sunlamp, WHERE DID YOU GET URANIUM?? Stuff like that.

So Mira ends up just casually walking up behind Rumi and hugging her (her flame powers would let her burn Rumi to a cinder, and Rumi’s teleport wouldn’t work while someone’s holding her). She asks Zoey if she’s ok, and Zoey starts rambling about how nice Rumi is and how she refused to torture Zoey “even though she wanted info about *insert transparently corrupt hero’s name here* which I do have.”

For Mira it clicks really fast that Rumi isn’t targeting hero’s as a whole, specifically corrupt ones after she sees the meticulous notes Rumi has. (She let go of Rumi and started rifling through them despite her protests.)

(“Did you color code your notes about hero’s costumes?”

Rumi, who is blushing and stuttering and trying to grab the papers Mira is holding out of her reach and flustered in a way Mira’s never seen:)

Basically, the two of them adopt Rumi into their little group of “no-kill hero’s-villains-civilians”.

Medusa and the blind woman in love

"hmm.. probably zoey. she gave me half of her choco pie earlier"

and a few minutes later, mira comes out from her room and gives rumi some snack or whatever, and just stays sitting there, out of the camera's view, just patiently waiting

"hmm, mira? you need anything else?" "who's your bias now?" "what?"

and zoey zooming out of her room "no mira! she already said i was her bias for today!" "im just asking, and she said you were at that moment. not right now!"

and so rumi's live just becomes a zoemira fighting ground to see who is actually rumi's bias.

To celebrate the success of the first few days of the kickstarter campaign, the WBN team posted Chapter 1!! 🌻

zoey having exclusively fair-weather friends. when they're having fun, it's fun, and she recalls the memories for days . but when days are too long and school hallways are too narrow, she cannot confide in any of them.

zoey being part of trios, except she always feels like a placeholder, like a punchline to a sour joke. and so, since third wheeling is anything but nice, she ends up in bigger friend groups, hoping that would help her fit in better.

instead, the issues repeat, except they're even more obvious. she is ignored and talked-over, included solely because no one wants to be the one who directly tells her to leave them alone.

zoey's mom telling her to stop wearing earbuds so much—you'll damage your hearing—and she thinks to herself, there is nothing good to hear around me anyway. zoey's dad telling her to go out sometime, to stop draining nights by writing until the sunrise—your eyes will shrivel up from staring at the paper—and she thinks to herself, the outside world has nothing nice to offer.

and her parents think she's fine, you know? their girl is this bubbly and extroverted person, jumpy and jittery. when they visit uncles and aunts in other states, she plays with her cousins. during dinners, she still chatters and jokes. sure, her eyebags are more prominent, but she's a teen!

zoey dreams about an escape. there's a period—mid-divorce, when talks of custody cloud any other topic—when she believes living in korea would offer her a new, fresh start. but then she thinks how teens there are likely no different from teens here, and she will always stick out like a sore thumb.

she is destined to be alone. too boring/annoying/weird for her peers, and to her parents a bullet point in the lawyer's office more than a daughter.

All that to say, Zoey’s wrath should be legendary. A terror to behold. No one should be spared and everyone should catch a stray.

daphne and velma, noir style 💜🧡

Or this??

Or how about this???

The pilot, holding baby Rumi in one arm and a smoothie in the other: “A smoothie!” 😄

@dreamyolk

Reference:

(Bonus)

The co-pilot: “I meant the infant in your other arm…”

The pilot: “Oh! That? That’s my daughter. Her name’s Rumi.”

The co-pilot, to himself: ‘Since when was Captain in a relationship? Let alone, have any children?? Oh, my Gwi-ma! Did he actually have [censored] with a human woman? Or worse, KIDNAP a human baby?!’

The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.

"Wikipedia is in peril.

In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

In Wikipedia’s 25-year history, it has never had to fight this hard." -----

Interesting, alarming article.

tl;dr: If you use Wikipedia every day, like your sobsister, or even regularly, and you have a few bucks to spare, think about a donation to help it fight off MAGA/Musk, AI, and authoritarian governments around the world.

Tbf I do get to actually binge watch things without ads (previews excluded) and I could (although I haven’t) request certain movies be bought by the library if I really wanted to watch them.

can we? 🥺