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extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt's real name

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT

After the humiliating defeat to Johnny in the fiddling contest, the Devil is looking for a win. So he goes up to Kansas and challenges a farmer's boy named Clark to an arms wrestling competition.

"You are the master."

"No. There is no master here but you."

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The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they're smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it's easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.

You need to find a way to pack all of the things that a story needs into a tiny like box without it overheating.

Scientists have just discovered some rocks at the bottom of the ocean can make oxygen... and they do it in complete darkness!

These aren’t magic stones, they’re polymetallic nodules, potato-sized metal lumps packed with manganese, cobalt, and nickel.

But here’s the twist; when seawater flows over their surfaces, they generate tiny electric currents that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, just deep-sea chemistry creating breathable gas in the pitch black.

This “dark oxygen” could explain how deep-sea creatures survive in low-oxygen zones far from the surface. What's even wilder is that if this can happen on Earth, it could be happening right now in the hidden oceans of Europa or Enceladus, two icy moons that scientists think might host alien life.

Saving this for world-building in a fantasy story with an enclosed underground living space that needs a source of oxygen.

Big news, terraformers!

The Turning of the Year: A Cinderella Retelling

In a long-ago year, in a faraway land, there lived a girl named Alena. She lived in the house of a cruel stepmother, who hated her because she was so much prettier than her own daughter, and who made Alena do all the work of the house. Though the stepmother let her eat only scraps and wear only rags, Alena grew only more kind and beautiful as the year's went by, while her own daughter, Vanda, grew ever more coarse and cruel.

Now one December, it became known that the king of the land would host a grand ball in the city upon the eve of the New Year. Alena, like all other girls, wished to attend, and asked her stepmother if she could go. Her stepmother promised that she could, in order to convince Alena to work even harder in the weeks before.

But when New Year's Eve arrived, and Alena asked if she could dress for the ball, her stepmother cried, "A ball? When there is so much work to do? We must cast out the old year! You shall attend no ball before the house is cleaned. If there is even a speck of dust left in this house at midnight, you shall bring bad luck upon us all--and it shall be very bad luck for you.”

With that, her stepmother left the house, along with her own daughter, Vanda, to purchase trimmings for their dresses at the ball.

Scarcely had Alena begun to clean the kitchen when she heard footsteps near the back garden gate. When Alena peered outside, she found an old woman walking alone, her back so bent she could not stand without her staff, and her hair so white the snowflakes seemed dark upon it.

“Good mother!” Alena cried, rushing to the woman’s aid. “Come inside to warm yourself! It is no weather for traveling.”

The old woman took a seat by the fire with thanks, and gladly shared the crust of bread that was the only meal Alena’s stepmother had given her.

“You are good to an old woman,” the stranger said. “Yet that is no surprise, for you have been good the whole year through.”

“You do not know me,” Alena said in surprise.

“But I do,” the woman replied, “for I am the Old Year. You have shown me kindness near the end of my journey, so I will be glad to do what I can to help you in yours. What troubles you, child?”

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that in the criminal underworld, only two things are really widely known about Parker:

No one really knows what she looks like, who she works for, or even that she is a she.

So may I suggest "The 101 Parkers Job":

There's a global job so huge and so important that it behooves the Leverage crew to split up and convince many, many marks that the person they're dealing with is the Parker. Obviously, Parker can only be in place at a time, so this includes the usual suspects—Eliot, Hardison, Sophie, Harry, and Breanna—plus lots of members of Leverage International as well as some surprise faces, including Maggie, Quinn, McSweeten, Tara, and Sterling (and that's just the tip of the iceberg), all pretending to be Parker. For one glorious episode, they are all Parker, embodying all of the weirdness and skill that entails to the best of their abilities, guided by comms in the most chaotic job possible.

I can NOT stop thinking about Sterling as Parker. He is having the worst time of his life. He's decided that his consolation for having to do this is that he can at least ding Parker's reputation a little. But no matter what he does, it has the opposite effect. And it's driving him absolutely crazy. He's 30 seconds from giving himself an aneurysm.

Upon rereading the Scarlet Pimpernel it has come to my attention that I cannot in fact have Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi for Marguerite and Chauvelin, respectively, on account of Jenna being Too Smol and Peter being Too Tol (alas)

So instead I'll have Anna Taylor Joy for Marguerite and Daniel Radcliffe for Chauvelin (peak weird little guy [psychotic] energy), plus Robert Pattinson for Sir Andrew (he would honestly be a great Percy but alas he Too Skinny. Fortunately Andrew also seems to have weird little guy energy) and Jenna for Suzanne

Timothy Chalamet could be Armand on account of his Victorian Orphan energy

Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here

his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"

Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"

Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!

dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you

may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down

What did he do to deserve this

punished by the council

FOOLS!!!! YOU ARE ALL NOTHING BENEATH THE MIGHTY POWER OF MY JPEG ARTIFACT

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