Lady magique et Lady chance

Me and about four other people will care about this, but it has taken me this long to realize that in season 2 episode 9 of Pennyworth (shut up, it’s enrichment in my enclosure) when Alfred is posing as Tommy’s driver and waxing lyrical about how, when he’s in America, he’s going to have a car just like this one. And the car, is a Ford Lincoln Futura.

A Ford Lincoln Futura.

Aka— the original Batmobile as driven by Adam West.

He’s driving the original Batmobile!!!

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Female Power Romantasy novels can be indulgent as they like with giving the MC all the powers and hottest love interests and overcomplicated backstories, and I will cheer that on. Yes, there is a place for this! I see your vision, girl!

But the moment it starts talking about blood purity, her divine right to rule, and how ubermensch her babies will be with the man with the equally super special bloodline? You're doing girlboss eugenics at that point.

This blew up, so let me explain.

"Specialina has rare squirrel blood passed down from the time a secret ancestor married a squirrel god. This gives her super powers to climb trees and find nuts!" 👍👍👍 Inheritable traits are a thing after all.

"Because Specialina has rare squirrel blood, she is entitled to rule over the rodent kingdom, and if she is kept from her rightful throne bestowed by her ancestry, the vile rat people will continue to corrupt the land." ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Oops, no one is entitled to rule over others, especially through genetics. And think about why a certain group of people is your designated "evil" race.

"Specialina's love interest is McBroody, a man with rare rabbit powers. With both squirrel blood who have domain over the skies and rabbit blood who have domain over the land, their children will have domain over everything and become the most powerful beings on earth who will bring the kingdom eternal balance, thus the evil rat people do everything to keep these two apart." 🛑🛑🛑 STOP. DO NOT PASS GO. THINK ABOUT WHY THE HAPPY ENDING OF YOUR FEMALE POWER FANTASY IS HAVING GENETICALLY SUPERIOR BABIES.

I hope you don't mind me adding your tags @maculategiraffe, you're so right with this

Asking for at least two people on the Summers Family Tree.

This question is now relevant to about ten people and their status on the Summers Family Tree.

I forgot about the North Korean X-Men.

#I mean how extensive is this DNA alteration#did they just inject blood into me or has all of my DNA been overwritten

We're talking extensive enough that you're passing the new DNA onto your kids.

I'm gonna be honest, I was 100% down to call them a parent, but you guys seem to disagree so far.

I'm not familiar with whatever media you're referencing fjfbfj so idk the exact situation, but given the scenario you described I think this just needs a new term.

Biological parentage is a specific mode of DNA contribution, in which the DNA that comes together to make an embryo is altered in certain ways during gamete formation (this is one of the difficulties of cloning, as we aren't yet able to replicate all of the necessary changes). With some chromosomes it even matters that you get one of the pair from each parent; if you get two paternal or two maternal copies, there can be characteristic issues (see Angelman and Prader-Willi Syndromes).

It also makes a difference to a person's early development whether the DNA is present from conception or added later in life, which I think is highly relevant to the biological definition of parentage. DNA present from conception guides fetal development, for one thing--miscarriages most often result from an embryo having a mutation that screws with some part of the process, like implantation or placenta formation. And there's also a question of whether the added DNA will be present in the individual's gametes or only in somatic cells (there has admittedly been at least one documented case of a woman who turned out to be a genetic chimera, with ovarian DNA that didn't match her somatic DNA, but in that case afaik it was still a matter of fused twins from the same set of parents). Referring to the source of new DNA as a "parent" obfuscates all of this.

Anyway, to sum up: I would argue that someone who added DNA later in life, but did not contribute DNA towards the person's initial creation, does not fulfill the definition of "biological parent." But I do think that, in a world where this is like, a thing that happens, a new word would most likely be coined to describe that relationship.

This is all fascinating, but I do need to point out that you are absolutely familiar with the media I'm referencing.

This mostly about Spider-Man and Deadpool. Also Mr Sinister but you might not know him.

Specifically Spidey has DNA from the Spider and Deadpool has DNA from Wolverine.

...You are possibly overestimating how familiar I am with that but I DID know Spiderman has spider DNA lmfao so fair enough

Some day I'm going to run a trad fantasy dungeon crawler campaign where instead of unbroken ten-thousand-year dynasties, every time the player characters need to interact with the nobility, etc. I use a set of lookup tables to randomly generate the kingdom's current political situation. If the new results are irreconcilable with the old, there was a revolution while they were down in the dungeon and they didn't notice.

Fascinated by the idea that having a player character with a noble backstory accelerates the pace of political turmoil because each downtime counts as a separate instance of "interacting with nobility".

Historian: and then after thousands of years of relative stability, the Third Age finally came to a close, followed by the Age of We're Not Gonna Fucking Get Into This Bullshit.

ok question tho

ive actually fucking tried to google this but i cant find an answer, all i get are fics

where does the whole “five times _____ and one time ____” fic title thing come from??

is it a reference to something? or is it just a fanfiction thing?

It comes from Basingstoke, a writer from the Due South and Smallville fandoms. 

I know she’s on Dreamwidth. I don’t know if she has an AO3 or not. 

There might have been one or two REALLY early examples of that story form (like 1980s early), but she invented it as we know it. 

ETA: As a matter of fact, here’s the first Five Things story ever: http://archiveofourown.org/works/9519

I just found the Fanlore article, and it looks like while Basingstoke invented the format, Strangecreature, a Torchwood writer, might be one of the first to have used “five times and one time.” But the original prompt was Basingstoke’s. And it’s definitely fanfiction only in origin.

I love it when conversations about this come around again!  How cool is it that I know people in fannish history! (and how uncool is it that I never know it was Bas who invented this until recently – where was I, under a rock?)

tee hee. It wasn’t on purpose! I did the first Five Things and then people have been riffing on it for the past decade. It’s neat. 

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

You did a wonderful job @unhappy-sometimes 🙌😍❤❤

All of that just to make this meme: dumb man and his oneside beef with a doll in his image 🤣

Spyboy did this to himself 😌

And below are the sketches I gave to our dear unso 🥰 She gave it a very different vibe in her drawings, more calm and mature in compared with my overdramatic version 🤣

I had a great time doing this collab with unso ❤ I hope we can do this again some time in near future 🤗

something about death, and sustenance, and decay. Idk

Teen Titans: Starfire (2024)

@thebibliosphere I think you might want to read this comic.

Oh, hell yes. To the comic book store!

It’s part of a REALLY awesome series that starts with Teen Titans: Raven! The artist is fantastic and is a fan of the old cartoon show, as well!

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I made a blank one to use as a reaction image.

The first time someone described what a twink was, I replied "Oh, like Luke Skywalker?"

He paused, tilted his head, said "Less actual maiming, but yeah."

And that was how I met my bestie.