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I'm literally kicking myself for not picking it up sooner. Honestly many many kudos to you. thanks for sharing this!

Hope you have a lovely day!!!

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Thank you so much for such a beautiful, glowing comment!! I’m sorry it took so long to respond to these but I kept them so that I could look back on them easily when I needed a confidence booster (which is too often lately). This is such a lovely, sweet comment. Thank you so much, you really made my... well, weeks that I’ve had this in my inbox lol. I’ve reread it so many times.

But one can only be selfish for so long and it’s time to get you an answer.

[Find the series we’re talking about here: GOD’S AMONG US] I’m pretty thrilled when people say they like the worldbuilding because I had so much fun thinking about it. If you haven’t checked them out already, you might be interested in the Appendices. (Also, I am still working on additional stories in this verse! I’ve just been very distracted by other projects lately. One is very close to completion though!)

Re the “War is a growing pain”/dual natures stuff... ultimately this fic was born from some thoughts I’ve had for original work over the years and my musings on the nature of divinity; how living forever and having these insane powers that separate you from the beings of the next closest evolutionary level by lightyears would inform how one viewed not just other life/intelligence but existence in general. I’ve always felt like there was something missing from the way we write and talk about immortality and I still don’t think I fully did it justice but I hope I managed to scratch the surface a little. The idea that we get so caught up in the world around us and all it’s problems that it’s easy to forget all the ways things are better now than they ever were before was kind of the catalyst for “If you had the first hand perspective and experience of history to inform your thoughts, would you be jaded or awed at the potential of humanity?” And at one point someone described a country or a political concept as “young” and I started thinking about international relations as interfamilial relations or even personal growth; how humanity as a species might evolve along the same emotional and intellectual ebbs and flows as a single human... I’m sorry, I’m not articulating my thought processes very well 😭 I’ll move on to the easy answer now 😂

The time period! I did mostly want to leave it open to interpretation, but I did have specific reasons for making certain decisions. 

SO while this fictional world is very similar in a lot of ways to ours, there are obviously some major differences. The biggest one is that these gods are known entities. No one questions whether they exist. There is no such thing as atheism in this world because the gods are tangible facts, happy to remind people that they do, in fact, exist. AND many of the gods are in same-sex relationships that produce children, the ones who are part of “fated” or “official” pairings are still ancient beings, monogamy isn’t really a thing for the gods (another one of those things that seemed unlikely for eternal beings). While there is still a lot of religious tension between sects and subsequent moralizing, it’s on a much smaller scale. So while each region of the world still has it’s own history and developed individual cultures, there is a also this massive shared experience with the gods. At the same time, the gods have largely secluded themselves from the world and humans, with all their problems and all their lack of power, don’t have that option. For good or bad, they can’t hide and are forced to deal with their issues.

All this apparently translated to this anachronistic, vaguely WWII era aesthetic on Earth with hopefully little bits from all over the world seeping in (If you’ve read any of the other fics in the series, Dick is India for the celebration of this universe’s approximation of Holi at the beginning of A Love Story and bits of his temple are definitely inspired by Japanese shrines) and the Hall of Divinity was largely stuck in a classic ancient Greek aesthetic.

A couple little notes: jeans and t-shirts have been around for a long time! Jeans since the 1800′s I think and t-shirts actually right around the time of WWII (though I think there were similar garments before that. And the stuff with the computers... that was meant to show that the gods do actually have jobs 😂 The computer in Tim’s rooms isn’t available on Earth. Jason is mesmerized by it. What he thinks of as a computer is MASSIVE and don’t actually have screens. The computer he sees in Tim’s rooms is the future and it’s Tim’s job to figure out how to inspire mankind to use it wisely when they finally invent it (inspiring mankind to invent it is Arsenal's job).

Just finished painting Jason (≧▽≦) I had a few mishaps near the neck but I think it came out ok for the most part

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lol thank you! I'm glad you liked that! It's so much fun coming up with ways characters can use their powers for sex 😂

Updated the Gods Among Us appendices. I might be working on an addition to the series and, even though the new info in the appendices doesn’t have much to do with the current wip, it will probably come into play in future parts. 

Hey there babe!

Yeah I haven’t really had the energy for Tumblr the last couple of months. Sorry about that. What little energy I have for social interaction usually gets used up with work and Discord.

Jason officially stays at the manor for the first couple of decades (although after a few months he kinda starts shaking up with Tim).

The Hall of Divinity accomodates official fated pairings together so as soon Jason’s divine spark returns, Nightwing and Deathstroke’s rooms ARE Jason’s too. They don’t get their own because they’re not meant to be apart (and can’t help but not want to be apart) for any significant amount of time.

That said, you may have noticed at the end of chapter 1, Nightwing tells Deathstroke to “stop turning this place into a dungeon” and when Jason wakes up its all marble floors and pillars with a huge open balcony...

That’s because the gods have a great deal of control over how their homes take shape. To an extent. When Deathstroke is the only one there for a while it will change to accommodate his preferences. It’ll do the same for Nightwing and later Jason if he’s ever there by himself for a bit. But when they’re all together it’ll find a middle ground and kind of accommodate all their needs (conveniently never too awfully complicated by nature of their destined matching).

So when Jason first returns, Nightwing and Deathstroke have worked extremely hard to change for him and he’s forgiven them but not forgotten what happened. The room is less stark and cold, still the white marble floors but the walls are wood and there are three separate sleeping chambers sectioned off from the main living space with curved arches and gauzy curtains in each deity’s official color. When they are intimate with each other, they pick a bed.

It’s never Jason’s. Not for a long time. He likes the option to leave without having to rely on them to listen to him and wants to keep his own space his and free from their touch until he’s more comfortable.

Eventually though, they’d all end up tangled together on their one giant bed.

I’m a shitty “artist” and I threw this together really quick so don’t judge lol, but hopefully this will give you a vague idea of what I’m talking about please ignore the fucked up perspective on the bed in the second image

A lot of them don’t really care. It doesn’t really affect Ivy, Orin, Flash, Talia, Raven, Jon, even Robin and Kal.

For like Harlequinn, Nightstar, Starfire, and Arsenal, they’re pretty shocked about how a god was treated by the people they care about and Jason has to explain, again, that no one should be treated that way. They come around pretty easy though.

Now. Kon and Ra’s however? They take issue with Jason’s prescence because of his closeness with Tim. Ra’s has been trying to seduce Tim pretty much since the beginning and he’s not too thrilled to have more competition. Tim has only ever given Ra’s the time of day when he’s on the outs with Kon AND the fight lasts an exceptionally long time. Now Ra’s has to share those rare moments with some new god who used to be a human? The indignity.

Kon is also not thrilled. He and Tim are best friends and love each other dearly but they butt heads a lot. Kon doesn’t like the idea of someone Tim likes that much possibly making things worse. Little does he know, though, that Jason’s prescence actually makes things better (for Kon not Ra’s... lots worse for Ra’s lol) as he helps balance the times when Tim gets over analytical and Kon gets overly stubborn. After a tense start, the three of them end up getting along really well.

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

I swear I didn't forget about him 🥺 but college hit me with too much hw and it's been tough cuz of what's happening 😣😭

But he's FINALLY finished, I've gone out of order of who I wanted to draw first but Tim's done and so is Jason so I'm happy with that😆😊

Hi baby! Sorry it took so long to answer you but I had to think about it because in my mind... yeah nothing happened to Joker and I wanted to reevaluate and make sure that made sense for everyone involved.

So for starters, short of taking it out on Joker’s mortal followers, there’s not really much the other gods can really do to him anyway. That might have been an option for Deathstroke before Jason but not so much anymore. Now Jason is insisting that taking their divine issues out on mortals who didn’t do anything is wrong and, even if Deathstroke doesn’t necessarily believe that, he is currently bending over backwards to do whatever it takes to bring the missing member of their triad back to them. They’re physically and emotionally pained by Jason’s absence so they’re not going to do anything that might prolong his return.

And with Nightwing Jason just guilts him. “Well, he wasn’t wrong, Dickhead. He didn’t do anything to me you and Deathstroke didn’t do first.” And that makes the self-righteous indignation die down real fast.

Bruce is conflicted because he knows Joker isn’t responsible for the way he is and he still loves the person Joker used to be. But Joker still harmed his son. I have thoughts about writing their first interaction after WAtGP so I won’t go too into it but I have to recommend readers keep in mind the fact that the gods have a complicated relationship with time and emotions and stuff. While Bruce is probably the closest to sharing general human values having spent so much time with them, he is still an ancient immortal deity with a wildly different perspective.

As for Nocturna, she is very solemn. Very silent. She doesn’t speak much and when she does it’s more... it’s more like a feeling one has of what she intends to communicate. She does her best to kind of mitigate Joker’s damage but ultimately she’s deeply apathetic.