Magenta Doomsday: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #38-40 (JLI 53)
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Giffen, DeMatteis, Hughes. Warning for jump scares, ridiculous levels of violence, an extended pro-suicide thought sequence, and a scene that had me wondering if it was possible to fridge a dude.
Hate destroys. Hate makes you into a parody of the person you once were, an empty, scowling mask where a human being once stood, chasing goals that’ll never bring you lasting happiness. Oh, it might give you a burst of fearsome short-term energy, maybe even enough to destroy your enemies, but that’ll just leave you with one last enemy: yourself.
That’s the philosophy by which I try to live my life. Even when I have to watch the news. (Those Death Note fantasies are just fantasies.) But here to articulate a dissenting view is our new op-ed columnist, Despero.
( Still better than Bret Stephens! )
Crossed #5
Feb. 5th, 2026 10:20 amcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
"Some of this stuff runs pretty close to or even past what I assumed were my own limits. It's not butchery for the sake of it-- a typical issue of 'Crossed' will contain relatively few extreme images or incidents, perhaps only one or two (but they will be pretty far out there). What I'm attempting to do is temper the slaughter with a good deal of character development; I'm trying to show people hanging onto their humanity as well as their lives. Just barely and by their fingernails, of course." -- Garth Ennis
( Scans under the cut... )
Community Recs Post!
Feb. 5th, 2026 10:18 amglitteryv posting in recthethingEvery Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fancrafts/fanvids/other kinds of fanworks/fics/fanart/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)
(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)
So what cool fancrafts/fanvids/other kinds of fanworks/fics/fanart/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.
BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.
dissing on sf cons, again
Feb. 5th, 2026 06:51 amcalimacHere's yet another characterization of sf cons as unwelcoming and elitist. I find that a very strange charge. In my youth I was stepped on by all sorts of elites, but I never had any trouble finding sf cons welcoming and joyous.
But I know why this is. It's because I didn't go to sf cons with a chip on my shoulder. I had figured out that literary sf cons are about written sf literature. If you go to a focused special-interest con, you have to focus on what interest you have in that, and put other interests in abeyance for the weekend. I once went to a festival celebrating Peter Jackson's Tolkien movies. I'm famously excoriating on those, but I shut up about that for the weekend and accepted the celebration of what's good about them (and there are good things about them, just not anything having to do with Tolkien). Last month I went to a Clark Ashton Smith conference. I'd never paid more attention to Clark Ashton Smith than the length of time it took to read one or another short story by him, but for that weekend I focused on Clark Ashton Smith - and learned a lot.
And the reason these small specialty conferences are hostile to other interests is because they feel beleaguered. They're a community and they have an interest. There's a lot more comics fans than there are literary sf fans, as the size of comics cons will reveal, and they've got plenty of conventions of their own. Same with movies. If they come in to the small specialty cons, they'll drown out what the con is there for. Decades ago there was a joke in the Mythopoeic Society that Star Wars was the black hole of conversation; that once it came up, it took over the discussion.
I don't expect these cons to change their focus for me. I don't march into a literary sf con and demand to be taken as a comics fan, as the poster did. They're a community; you can join that community if you have any interest in its subject. (Some of the Clark Ashton Smith attendees had barely begun reading his work, and they weren't denigrated by the hoary old specialists, because they were showing interest; they weren't demanding the con be about something else.) Blend into the environment you're in, if you have any interest in it at all. There'll be a chance for a different environment next weekend.
PS: Kayla Allen corrected a small factual error in the post.
But I know why this is. It's because I didn't go to sf cons with a chip on my shoulder. I had figured out that literary sf cons are about written sf literature. If you go to a focused special-interest con, you have to focus on what interest you have in that, and put other interests in abeyance for the weekend. I once went to a festival celebrating Peter Jackson's Tolkien movies. I'm famously excoriating on those, but I shut up about that for the weekend and accepted the celebration of what's good about them (and there are good things about them, just not anything having to do with Tolkien). Last month I went to a Clark Ashton Smith conference. I'd never paid more attention to Clark Ashton Smith than the length of time it took to read one or another short story by him, but for that weekend I focused on Clark Ashton Smith - and learned a lot.
And the reason these small specialty conferences are hostile to other interests is because they feel beleaguered. They're a community and they have an interest. There's a lot more comics fans than there are literary sf fans, as the size of comics cons will reveal, and they've got plenty of conventions of their own. Same with movies. If they come in to the small specialty cons, they'll drown out what the con is there for. Decades ago there was a joke in the Mythopoeic Society that Star Wars was the black hole of conversation; that once it came up, it took over the discussion.
I don't expect these cons to change their focus for me. I don't march into a literary sf con and demand to be taken as a comics fan, as the poster did. They're a community; you can join that community if you have any interest in its subject. (Some of the Clark Ashton Smith attendees had barely begun reading his work, and they weren't denigrated by the hoary old specialists, because they were showing interest; they weren't demanding the con be about something else.) Blend into the environment you're in, if you have any interest in it at all. There'll be a chance for a different environment next weekend.
PS: Kayla Allen corrected a small factual error in the post.
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Recent fic (mostly Babylon 5) on AO3
Feb. 5th, 2026 12:54 amsholioI reposted some of my longer 3 Sentence Ficathon fills on AO3.
An Immodest Proposal (Babylon 5)
State of Change (Babylon 5)
Hypotheticals (Gattaca)
And a new B5 fic, written a little while back because I had the idea, but not posted until now:
Reliquary (Babylon 5, post-canon, canon compliant, character deaths)
Reposted under the cut.
( Reliquary - Babylon 5 - 1500 wds )
An Immodest Proposal (Babylon 5)
State of Change (Babylon 5)
Hypotheticals (Gattaca)
And a new B5 fic, written a little while back because I had the idea, but not posted until now:
Reliquary (Babylon 5, post-canon, canon compliant, character deaths)
Reposted under the cut.
( Reliquary - Babylon 5 - 1500 wds )
Daily Devotions from Lutheran Hour Ministries: 5 February 2026
Feb. 5th, 2026 03:46 amsparoweLight of the World
Matthew 5:14-16 – [Jesus said] “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
There’s a reason I don’t have a fish sticker on my car. That’s because I think I’m a decent driver, yes—but I’m not so sure of my skill that I want to have the Name of Jesus associated with every last move I make when I’m on the freeway! I would rather have people yell at me than blame God for my screw-ups.
But it’s different when I’m in the city after hours, helping refugees fill out paperwork, or dealing with doctors and schools on their behalf. Then I want people to know who it is who’s spending the time and effort to make their lives easier—because it certainly isn’t me! Left to my own devices, I’d be home playing on my computer. But the Holy Spirit has called my family to care for the Vietnamese immigrants of our city, whether that’s through church work, social work, or paperwork. God does it because He loves those people; I do it because I love Him.
And when that kind of thing goes on long enough, there will be people who ask you in all seriousness: “Why are you doing this?” Our answer to the Vietnamese has always been: “Jesus sent us to you. Would you like to know more about Him?” It’s how the Vietnamese church here got born. If it’s a doctor or policeman asking us, our answer is the same: “We do this because Christ sent us to do it. Is there anything else we can do to help?” And some of them, too, may become interested in a God who actually cares about their lives and work, and come to faith.
You too are a child of God, with the Holy Spirit living in you. That light cannot be hidden. How will you answer those who ask you, “Why did you help me?”
WE PRAY: Dear Jesus, live in me and through me, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.
This Daily Devotion was written by Dr. Kari Vo.
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (SCP Foundation)
Feb. 4th, 2026 10:47 pmsholioThis book is hard to tag - it's basically cosmic horror, or horror scifi. It is also one of the creepiest and trippiest things I've read in a long time and maybe ever.
I kinda vaguely knew about SCP as a collaborative wiki project from the 2000s, with user-submitted descriptions of imaginary (and frequently extradimensional) objects. This book is based on it. It's about a group of characters who work for the Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation, a department most people don't know about (because it's impossible to remember it for more than a few minutes after finding out about it) that handles "antimemes," which are the opposite of memes - if memes are catchy and transmissible, antimemes are intentionally unmemorable, to an extent where you need to use extraordinary measures, such as memory-enhancing drugs, just to recognize that they exist at all. It's information that functions as anti-information. And it turns out there are living creatures with antimemetic properties, as well as weapons that use it ...
( Lots and lots of spoilers )
I kinda vaguely knew about SCP as a collaborative wiki project from the 2000s, with user-submitted descriptions of imaginary (and frequently extradimensional) objects. This book is based on it. It's about a group of characters who work for the Antimemetics Division of the SCP Foundation, a department most people don't know about (because it's impossible to remember it for more than a few minutes after finding out about it) that handles "antimemes," which are the opposite of memes - if memes are catchy and transmissible, antimemes are intentionally unmemorable, to an extent where you need to use extraordinary measures, such as memory-enhancing drugs, just to recognize that they exist at all. It's information that functions as anti-information. And it turns out there are living creatures with antimemetic properties, as well as weapons that use it ...
( Lots and lots of spoilers )
Critical Role
Feb. 4th, 2026 11:00 pmsettiaiI'm starting to think that I'm never going to get caught up with Critical Role. 🙃
This is why I have to stay up until 2-3am on Thursday nights, no matter how much I need sleep. If I miss an episode, it sets me back for months. Every time. I should know this by now, because it happens every time I skip an episode.
I'm currently three episodes behind, although it will be four episodes by tomorrow because there's no physical way possible for me to catch up before then since three episodes + three Cooldown is about eleven hours. I really need to find the time to catch up. It's just so hard since I can't do anything else while I'm watching, since it's not possible for me to multitask while watching something new-to-me. I have to pay attention and constantly read the subtitles, or I miss what's going on.
It's one thing to set aside four(ish) hours late on a Thrusday night when I'm already tired and don't have the spoons to do much of anything already. It's something else entirely to find four hours to set aside when I have so many other things that I need to get done.
This is why I have to stay up until 2-3am on Thursday nights, no matter how much I need sleep. If I miss an episode, it sets me back for months. Every time. I should know this by now, because it happens every time I skip an episode.
I'm currently three episodes behind, although it will be four episodes by tomorrow because there's no physical way possible for me to catch up before then since three episodes + three Cooldown is about eleven hours. I really need to find the time to catch up. It's just so hard since I can't do anything else while I'm watching, since it's not possible for me to multitask while watching something new-to-me. I have to pay attention and constantly read the subtitles, or I miss what's going on.
It's one thing to set aside four(ish) hours late on a Thrusday night when I'm already tired and don't have the spoons to do much of anything already. It's something else entirely to find four hours to set aside when I have so many other things that I need to get done.
this could be the year for the real thing
Feb. 4th, 2026 09:37 pmmusesfoolI could talk about how exhausting work is, not for any big thing but just because a regular project of mine has taken about twice as long as usual for a variety of reasons, but I am very close to it being done. I mean, will there be changes? Yes, but just getting it all down and confirmed will be a huge weight off my shoulders. Also, there's other stuff that makes me tired, but that is above my pay grade, even if I've got the new CEO calling me to talk it over(!!!).
In other news, I knew Panarin was going, and though I'm not thrilled about the return (I dislike Drury a lot as GM, but it is what it is while Dolan is in charge), I'm glad he's not in Florida. I don't want him in the east at all, so I can avoid seeing him on another team. (It helped with Kreider, too.)
Anyway, what I really want to talk about is the new episode of The Muppet Show that aired tonight. If you are a fan of the original, without spoilers let me say I recommend watching it. Hopefully it does well enough that they make more, because I thought it was 100% in the spirit of the original, unlike some of the more recent projects they've done.
( spoilers )
So that definitely lifted my spirits and I hope you give it a watch and it lifts yours!
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In other news, I knew Panarin was going, and though I'm not thrilled about the return (I dislike Drury a lot as GM, but it is what it is while Dolan is in charge), I'm glad he's not in Florida. I don't want him in the east at all, so I can avoid seeing him on another team. (It helped with Kreider, too.)
Anyway, what I really want to talk about is the new episode of The Muppet Show that aired tonight. If you are a fan of the original, without spoilers let me say I recommend watching it. Hopefully it does well enough that they make more, because I thought it was 100% in the spirit of the original, unlike some of the more recent projects they've done.
( spoilers )
So that definitely lifted my spirits and I hope you give it a watch and it lifts yours!
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GenPrompt Bingo: Freestyle Crossover
Feb. 4th, 2026 07:33 pmsenmutAO3 Link | Washed Up on the Beach (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Comics (General)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wanda Maximoff, Anna Marie
Additional Tags: Drabble, Crossover, +Modern Age (1986-Present)
Summary:
"Sugah, did you have a moment?" Rogue asked, looking ahead at the pack of grazing dinosaurs. Wanda shook her head to try and clear it, and decided that was definitely a valid question from her friend.
"I don't think I did?"
"It's not the Savage Land," Rogue said, after testing all her senses against this island they'd crashed on.
"So some mad scientist bought an island for cloning? Those don't look like the newer pictures of what dinosaurs are supposed to look like, after all."
"Well, before we find their hunting kind, let's get the comms back."
"Good plan, Rogue."
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Comics (General)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wanda Maximoff, Anna Marie
Additional Tags: Drabble, Crossover, +Modern Age (1986-Present)
Summary:
Two mutant ladies... and dinos?
"Sugah, did you have a moment?" Rogue asked, looking ahead at the pack of grazing dinosaurs. Wanda shook her head to try and clear it, and decided that was definitely a valid question from her friend.
"I don't think I did?"
"It's not the Savage Land," Rogue said, after testing all her senses against this island they'd crashed on.
"So some mad scientist bought an island for cloning? Those don't look like the newer pictures of what dinosaurs are supposed to look like, after all."
"Well, before we find their hunting kind, let's get the comms back."
"Good plan, Rogue."
Femslash February: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Feb. 4th, 2026 04:02 pmfanlore_tumblr_feedFemslash February: This Is How You Lose the Time War
ALTFor Femslash February we’re spotlighting ‘This Is How You Lose The Time War.’ The award-winning novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone captured fandom’s imagination with its poetic prose, time-traveling intrigue, and enemies-to-lovers sapphic romance between agents Red and Blue.
From its initial release in 2019 to its viral resurgence in 2023, the novella has inspired everything from lyrical fanfiction and stunning fanart to countless memes and emotional meta. Fans quote its lines like scripture, analyze every letter exchanged between its main characters, and use “this is how you lose the time war” as shorthand for beautiful heartbreak.
Want to learn more about the fandom’s devotion to Red and Blue? Check out its Fanlore page: This Is How You Lose the Time War - Fanlore
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Featured Article: Marble House
Feb. 3rd, 2026 06:02 pmfanlore_tumblr_feed
ALTThis week’s Featured Article is focused on Hollywoodgrrl’s popular and widely debated fan video “Marble House” from the Doctor Who fandom, originally shown at 2009 Vividcon.
Reviewers praise the technical skill that Hollywoodgrrl employed such as the montage moments within the video to further the story being depicted surrounding the unintended implications The Doctor had in World War I through his actions; while others within the Live Journal community of Vid Commentary question the use of real World War I footage within the video.
The video is still available on Vimeo for viewing as well as the extended commentary for the rationale behind the making of “Marble House” in the LJ Vid Commentary community. This video is settled between the eight and ninth episode of the third season of Dr. Who featuring the Tenth Doctor – played by David Tennet. The musical score of the video featuring the song by the same name as the title of the video, “Marble House” by The Knife, has lyrics that invoke the imagery of a beautiful but cold home and uses the grungy alternative music sound to create a dark ambiance to overlay these relationships. This song being carefully picked by Hollywoodgrrl to describe the relationship felt between Martha Jones and the Time Lord in these episodes as well as the destruction that is left behind not just between the two of them but on the world
See the Fanlore page to learn about this fannish history.
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wednesday reads and things
Feb. 4th, 2026 05:06 pmisisWhat I've recently finished reading:
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo, which was enjoyable, although I really dislike the structure of having one POV in first person past and the other POV in third person present, it just feels weird to me. Basically a whodunnit with fox spirits. I liked the old lady the best!
The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky - the conclusion of the Echoes of the Fall trilogy, and really not so much about the hyena and the hawk, but it does make for a nice alliteration. This was a great ending for the series, really fascinating worldbuilding, and as usual (for Tchaikovsky) it plays with the concepts of Us and The Other, and how to bridge the gap of understanding in order to appreciate The Other as Persons. Speaking of which,
What I'm reading now:
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which so far (20% in) is very much like Alien Clay except also very much not like it.
What I'm watching now:
We're about halfway through Pluribus. It's very slick and clever, a bit slow, I'm not sure if I like it, but I will watch the whole season, anyway. I am particularly charmed by all the random extras looking very much like regular everyday people. Also, Albuquerque! That's not too far out of my backyard...
What I'm playing now:
Still Ghost of Tsushima. I've rescued my uncle and am on to the second part of the story!
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo, which was enjoyable, although I really dislike the structure of having one POV in first person past and the other POV in third person present, it just feels weird to me. Basically a whodunnit with fox spirits. I liked the old lady the best!
The Hyena and the Hawk by Adrian Tchaikovsky - the conclusion of the Echoes of the Fall trilogy, and really not so much about the hyena and the hawk, but it does make for a nice alliteration. This was a great ending for the series, really fascinating worldbuilding, and as usual (for Tchaikovsky) it plays with the concepts of Us and The Other, and how to bridge the gap of understanding in order to appreciate The Other as Persons. Speaking of which,
What I'm reading now:
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which so far (20% in) is very much like Alien Clay except also very much not like it.
What I'm watching now:
We're about halfway through Pluribus. It's very slick and clever, a bit slow, I'm not sure if I like it, but I will watch the whole season, anyway. I am particularly charmed by all the random extras looking very much like regular everyday people. Also, Albuquerque! That's not too far out of my backyard...
What I'm playing now:
Still Ghost of Tsushima. I've rescued my uncle and am on to the second part of the story!
