Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

"How like a wandering star he seems. How like a passing spring which ends its stay in the fading light of dismal times." - Orion about Lightray

I couldn't help but think of how Lightray in his little glowing form from The New Gods (2024) #6, which I have affectionately dubbed Orbray, reminds me so much of Orion's description of him from DC Graphic Novel #4:

DC Graphic Novel #4

Rating: M Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Category: M/M Fandoms: New Gods (Comics), Justice League International (Comics), DCU (Comics) Relationships: Lightray/Orion (DCU) Collections: Fourth World Week 2025 Words: 3,369

Tags:

No Archive Warnings Apply, Lightray/Orion (DCU), Orion (DCU), Lightray (DCU), Pining, Feelings Realization, Love, Love Confessions, Requited Love, Chess, Hair-pulling, Kissing, Rough Kissing, Biting, Implied Sexual Content (Just at the end)

Summary:

A game of chess between Orion and Lightray leads to confessions and unexpected hair pulling. (Basically, I saw the below page and said that Orion needs to get his hands on it and pull.)

Excerpt:

As he pulled off his helmet Orion could hear the telltale clunk and clatter of a chessboard and its pieces placed upon a table in the Justice League Embassy rec. room. And like a siren song in the dead of night Orion followed it to its source already knowing who he would find waiting for him.           A late night game of chess had become a part of Lightray’s routine ever since the two of them had joined JLI. His companion had become taken with the Earth game of strategy, its uniform checkered board, and matching wits with their JLI comrades. He would pull in J’onzz, Da Costa, Kord, even Gardner, and the others when he could, but most often Lightray asked him. What had become a part of Lightray’s routine in turn had slowly and inevitably become a part of Orion’s own routine as well.           For no matter where one of the New Genesian pair was, the other was not too far behind. [Continue Reading On AO3]

Inspired by this comic page:

Justice League America (Vol. 1) #44

MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER

don't present androgynously

use "binary" pronouns in any capacity

identify partially with a binary gender

have a "gendered" name

don't experience body dysmorphia

don't experience gender dysphoria

DO experience gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia but aren't sure what gender or body would suit them

just experience body/gender apathy instead

can't be open about their gender identity yet

you're all absolutely valid.

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Said the PS6 will be more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

deepincision (heavy metal)

zulu (metal)

black pantera (rock, metal)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

erzulie (punk, rock)

youth man (punk)

the 1865 (punk)

crystal axis (punk)

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

shadow age (goth)

saccharin (goth)

the ire (goth, punk)

bastet (goth punk)