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This user believes in “don’t like, don’t read”

This user believes in “ship and let ship”

Like, this mindset makes everything that happens in the story absolutely hilarious, in particular the whole first interactions bit.

From Rocky's point of view he sent a simple model of the local star systems to indicate where he was from hoping these new creatures would indicate where they were from. He put it in a protective cylinder and sent it over to the ship. Something enormous climbs out of a hole in the side of their ship... Wait, did one of the creature go OUTSIDE its ship in a a god damn plastic bag just to catch it??? I better aim it at where it came out of so it doesn't do that again. Then when the cylinder gets back, the creatures have indicated where they're from by attaching a lollypop stick with chewinggum to the model... which has mostly fallen off in the heat. Also they put distilled fire in the cylinder???

The creature then climbs outside its ship, again, chiseled a lump of its ship with a hammer so it can send you a sample so you can join to it and... its made of thin sheets of soft lead???

Then on finally talking to this large creature he realises it's incredibly delicate like a jellyfish, so god damn stupid, has essentially no memory, and cant do basic maths. And you're supposed to be saving you're entire civilisation with this squishy idiot. But then a while later it turns around and explains relativistic time dilation and background radiation like its something he should have figured out already.

Ive heard multiple people describing Rocky seeing Grace like the equivalent of a dog, but he's really is more like hes a three and a half year old blind jellyfish. Its living in a frozen semi-vacuum of highly explosive gas, can't remember anything, needs to nap constantly or it becomes noticeably more stupid, and it's here to save the world.

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Thanks, I always make the best jokes when I'm not feeling well :)

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

I have seen a lot of post where Spider-Man gets sent to Gotham because Dr strange’s memory erasing spell means he can’t stay in the marvel universe anymore, and get adopted by the batfam. But there are not a lot of fics with him and young justice. (Unless you count tiny one shots.)

But what if he landed somewhere else? What if typical Parker luck caused him to enter the dc universe somewhere less favorable because that is where the action would be happening next?

I am going to have the portal spit him out in the underground levels of Cadmus labs on the day that Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad go to investigate the fire but end up rescuing Superboy. In fact I think I will have his sudden appearance be why the main psychic genomorph decided to do the fire that day instead of later like planned.

So Cadmus security is already distracted and busy trying to catch one intruder that they miss the side kicks arising and entering through the express elevator. Robin hacks the system and finds project Kr and that there seems to be an “asset” trying to escape. They search and Find Spidey first and since aren’t setting off the spider sense like everything else in the building is he quickly agrees to go with them.

Then they go down to the level project Kr is on, and like in the episode, release the clone. Peter’s Spider sense goes off and he intercepts the attack. Because Superboy is only half kryptonian and hasn’t had natural sunlight yet they are evenly matched strength wise, but Superboy is a tad faster. It isn’t until the scientist Desmond orders the psychic genomorph to psy-blast Spidey that Superboy gets the upper hand and takes him and the other side kicks out.

The rest of the escape happens like in the episode where Superboy changes sides and rescues them from the cloning lab. Then they fight the roided up Desmond/Blockbuster and bring the building down on the former scientist.

When the Justice league gets there and the explain what happened, the adults of course also ask who Spider-man is. Fortunately Robin and Kid Flash made it seem like he was an escaping clone and Peter has the presence of mind to go with the cover story they accidentally gave. So he will be staying in the young justice base with Superboy.

He sits in his room, looking at nothing and staring into the distance when Robin comes to check on him later. Kid Flash is the one to mention that sometimes Spidey (as they've taken to calling him) looks sad when he thinks no one's watching. Kaldur is the one to say he seems to act like hes worked in teams before. Megan mentions that even when he's spending time and having fun with everyone, there's a cloud of grief hanging around him.

Like he's just lost his whole world.

See my favorite version of Spider-Man is from the cartoon series Spectacular Spider-Man and I love pulling and combining traits and backstory from multiple iterations of characters. And the what I am pulling from spectacular Spider-Man is that he had that bad experience with venom that taught him how to push a psychic presence out of his mind. Which he does on a panicked reflex the first time Megan tries to telepathically communicate with him.

Now we could have them think that response was due to bad experience with the genomorphs like Superboy. Or we could have them thinking it is a sign that he wasn’t made in a lab but was trying to escape capture. Either way he is doing the bad coping habit of just trying to pretend his past doesn’t exist since it is painful to think about. Just makes him more of a mystery.

Now originally, the YJ let the JL draw their own conclusions about Spidey being a clone, (and Peter had gone along with it) but they weren't getting anywhere with Spidey and any attempts they made seemed to backfire badly. The kid seemed to have figured out places to hide and moved around late at night when everyone else was asleep.

Now they're realising that there's obviously a lot more to Spidey's issues than they can figure out and any attempts they're making isn't helping. The only reason the kid hasn't left yet is because he doesn't have anywhere else to go.

So they decide to get Red Tornado involved hoping the android might actually crack the kid open and actually manage to help. The only thing that comes of that though is for the first time they witness Spidey excited about something.

Though why he and Red Tornado were sitting at the kitchen island with various snack remains and documents spread around as Spidey excitedly waves around his hands talking tech and science. At least that's what the YJ can figure out they're talking about.

So Spidey is wondering what happened and where his teamates are and goes to find them. Only….none of them remember who he is. Just like…just like…

Peter was Spider-Verse glitched out of existence in his home universe bc of the memory spell, his universe being like 'who tf?' and kicking him out (very painfully.)

When the YJ team gets memory wiped, he full on runs away, knocks out the villain, but just runs and hides in the hideout. He tells Red Tornado what happened, but holes up in his room, refusing to come out for anything or anyone.

He's tried not to, but he got attached to his teammates, and he can't bear to look in their eyes and see no recognition in them (not again).

(the general design language will be applied to different hazard symbols and pride flags)

(the colors definitely need a lot of tweaking so ignore them for now)

During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, men who had contracted HIV would have the biohazard symbol tattooed prominently (usually on a forearm) to warn potential sexual partners of infection.

This also served as a green light to other infected people that raw encounters were possible, since once infected, one couldn't get RE-infected by a different partner. Might as well enjoy the life you have left, right?

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.