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Sometimes I see fanart of Jayce and think it’s Odysseus, then when I see Odysseus fanart I think it’s Jesus, but I never think Jesus fanart is Jayce.

Jay, Nya, and Lloyd are the pickpockets

Kai is getting pickpocketed

Zane has extreme spatial awareness but would also admonish the pickpocket for the crime then send them on their way with some cash and candy.

Cole simply doesn’t carry anything on him.

Namor: I have ways of making surfacers talk- to me, to me Jeff, taata’s working- Omgsh did you draw this? That is very good!

Jeff: Mrrrrr!

Turbo Granny: It’s apart of my life mottos: carpe diem, carpe noctem, carpe coles.

Okarun: Seize the day, seize the night, what's the last one?

Turbo Granny: Seize the dick.

Fox: *reciting the standard procedure* Injurying or killing an employee will result in a $7000-

Shiny: I get $7000 if I-

This feels like good time to bring up this:

Ares, patron god of (dance) battles

Greek Dances

...Another random thought. Just bear with me please. What if the Olympians had certain dance styles that are from our time that were their favorites (in other words, I'm not just saying, they dance. I want specifics)? Here's what I came up with.

Athena - River dancing because her feet can do whatever they want while her hands are free. Now, she can read a book or work on weaving (or stab someone. The options are limitless). I'm just imagining this plus whatever she's holding.

Ares - Paso doble because it's fiery and I can see him pulling off the passion you need to make it look convincing. Besides, he can do it with Aphrodite and she's the only one who gets him to like dancing anyway. This would be the two of them.

Aphrodite - Tango because it's spicy. She does this with Ares any and every chance she gets. Doesn't even matter if they've got other stuff going on. I can see it playing out exactly like this video, including the people watching being the Olympians.

Hermes - Quick step because...well, it's quick. Still actually not quick enough for him, but he'd fly through it. If you put this at 2x speed, this is what I had in mind.

Artemis - Hip-hop has a rough enough edge that I can see it working for her. She could be outside, hunting and then just randomly start doing this when the thud of the animals hitting the ground makes a nice beat.

Apollo -Modern/lyrical/contemporary dance (or whatever this is) because it seems very athletic, artsy, and also very dramatic. Apollo, the athletic, artsy, drama queen is how I see him.

Hestia - Ballet because it's very proper and elegant. She's so pure that she could be the perfect ballerina. It's probably the only time she isn't working with the hearth too. This would be her.

Demeter - Contemporary because I feel like this one is so expressive and she'd really need it to get out her frustration (let's be real. Her "life" pretty much has sucked since forever). Let her have some emotional release in the form of this (extra points if Persephone is the one with her)

Zeus - Jazz because it's a combination of grace and athleticism...actually, because he can either do jazz alone or with a partner and it's got just enough flair that his ego will be inflated. He might have regular one-man shows like this. He does jazz hands way too much.

Poseidon - Hivinau mostly because it's from an island (Tahiti to be precise. I'll be including it in a book next year!) and I see him always being on the beaches. So, he can do this with some people and nymphs.

Hades - Tap because he can seem really subdued at first and mild-mannered as he gets in these clean taps, then just shock his family by being amazing out of the blue. So, this would be him.

Hera - Waltz, particularly something like a traditional waltz since it supposedly can't be danced without a partner. Just seems to fit with her. She can pretend that she has her happy marriage while doing this.

Dionysus - Sorta tap, but specifically the kind that Ray Bolger and Dick Van Dyke sometimes did where it looked like they were out of it. This is what he'd be doing after a few too many drinks.

Hephaestus - Macarena because one of his siblings taught it to him and now he loves it (but he WILL deny it with his very being if questioned.) Sometimes, after a long day of crafting, he can be caught listening to music and doing this.

Cody: What’s a 5 letter word for “a rope with a loop tied to it”.

Bly: Las-

Fox: Noose.

Bly: -so…

Knuckles: Ma’am would it be forward to say that your voice is of the sirens, your breath is of the lilacs, and your skin is of the soft downy wool of a newborn lamb?

Rouge: Yes it would!

Knuckles: What if I told you, you had a great rack?

Rouge: Oh, you’re just saying that.

One thing to point out but w/ Ultimate Spider-Man, the show doesn’t start at his origin but months maybe even a year into his ‘heroing’. At the point Fury reached out to him he’d been doing this pretty efficiently and alone.

And to your last point, spidey is a teenager but also has immeasurable power. The people around him who know both sides, don’t know what to do with that. They forget he’s a teenager yet remind him of it constantly. They shoulder the weight of an entire team onto him.

Then of course his character gets disrespected by teammates and adults and yeah I’m not surprised he’s a bit jaded or spiteful.

You know I realised something today. There’s a stark contrast between the animated versions of Spider-Man/ Peter Parker and the movie versions

Like we know Peter is hella awkward and he is kind. With or without the suit, his personality is mixed with confident and awkward. But ultimate Spider-Man is a completely different breed. Most of the time rude and hella arrogant. Ultimate Peter was so spiteful it’s hilarious. Spectacular Spider-Man wasn’t quite like Ultimate Spider-Man but there are some parts worth noting.

Peter in the movies is devoted to one girl. MJ or Gwen. Spectacular Peter?? Man had four women. MJ, Gwen, that one cheerleader and mf black cat. Ultimate Peter tho was hella gay for Harry. He rather spent time with him than the gang.

Spider-Man in the movies was quite humble. They knew not to push it. Just stay as Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman. Minus Tom. He was pulled into the big leagues. He didn’t want it at first. Tom’s Spidey was hella awkward with Tony too at first. He acknowledges him as someone with high authority. Hell, he wouldn’t even think of himself standing next to Tony when suddenly the man himself appears in his apartment

Ultimate Spidey? Every time he sees Tony Stark, he is imagining himself as a higher ranked person if he is alongside Tony. But the fanboying stays atleast. You can tell he’s quite arrogant here.

Not to mention, he’s a spiteful man. I remember there was one scene he’s talking to Fury and Fury tells him not to be late. Then he’s all like “You don’t have to teach me something I already know!” or something like that. Then he storms out like a kid with a tantrum and the door closes after he leaves. Then Fury just says “Teenagers” and Peter with his enhanced hearing obviously heard that. The man opens the door, webs both sides and pulls it, smashing the door, just to prove Fury’s point of ‘Yes I’m the average teenager full of spite’

It’s hilarious.

(I just love ultimate Spider-Man. He’s so overhated.)

absolutely obsessed with the fact that tsukki works in a museum + is still in university post timeskip because it highly indicates that he absolutely will end up living a double life. personally I am of the persuasian that tsukki goes on to get a masters / eventual doctorate in history (and/or an adjacent field, like archeology, paleontology, anthropology, you get the vibes)

but like I imagine the fucking Sendai Frogs (or any of his volleyball friends) dont exactly enjoy chatting about 9th century kings or 12th century architecture so it just never comes up. except for when tsukki tells them he's going to be missing practice because he's flying to China to a few small villages with local churches and temples to study old medical records and put together a timeline of the opiod wars in less documented places and the rest of the Frogs are just like !!!!!!!!!!! you're doing what now????? and he's just like yeah its a government grant :/ but it'll be nice to get published in this journal and then all of his teammates go home and google him and find the half dozen articles he's published that high school students are citing in their research papers

but then when he's working in the archives and reading through old newspapers a coworker of his comes down and is like "hey kei would you be able to fill in for a docent that called in sick tomorrow? we just need someone to lead a few tours" and tsukki is like "sorry, I booked that time off. the d2 volleyball league starts tomorrow." and the coworker is just like. what?

Sailor Mars- tian?!

Hand was shaky when drawing pls excuse the extra wobbliness

This. In the JL cartoon Mmh transforms into his superhero look after meeting Bats and Supes. Which apparently equals=

Tiddies out, thighs out, biceps out, abs out. Speedo/Booty shorts on, calf height boots, and a sick ass cape

Which implies that either

a) he thought bats/supes skin was partially black/blue so he figured showing skin was a accepted norm in a superhero community

b) he knows that the black/blue isn’t skin but regardless chose to show skin

c) he was hot, the lab was hot, earth is much warmer than mars and he said “Martian summer came early time to whip out the speedo”

d) he was exhausted from being trapped and experimented on and thought “what’s the least amount of shape shifting I can do to be accepted by heroes” which equals cape, undies, and boots

Either and anyway his thought process went you can’t deny the fit slays.

People talk about discowing too much, it's not even the most outlandish costume in comics.

J'onn J'onzz has been looking like a striper since 1955 and y'all never say anything.

Some cute/weird/alien adjacent headcanons I have for Martian Manhunter, bc I love him:

- He genuinely feels so short in his humanoid form. He usually a stagger 14’0 but now he’s only 6’5 :(

- Mars is really cold so a mission to the arctic is summer vacay for him. He will feign being cold if only in solidarity with his teammates

- Martians have fur because more desolate areas of mars are cold and dusty.

- Will 100% make up shit about Martian civilization/physiology etc. What’s the league gonna do? Prove him wrong?

- related to above but J’onn is weird by martian standards.

- In some iterations martian copulation is a fucking weird mind meld glob thing so it is 100% fair to say that J’onn carried and birthed his daughter.

- Pretty much established but j’onn has a thing for fire & green. If someone fills one or forbid both of those qualities then he’s on that ass.

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Bonus convo I had w/ a friend

Coruscant Guard hot take:

Out of the all the clone sects, they’re the most accustomed to killing organics (non-droids).

Hear me out, other clones are on actual battlefields but 90% of their enemies are droids. I don’t think we see much of clones killing organics outside of order 66, and that one fucked up episode w/ pong Krell.

Also I know there’s groups aligned w/ the separatist or at least unaligned but still fighting republic troops. But I’m not arguing quantity I’m arguing the clones familiarity with killing organic beings

For the coruscant guard, while a lot of droids are around, living beings are far more likely to be perpetrators/criminals. Lethal force to a degree seems to be allowed, not for the safety of the clones of course, but so the assailant doesn’t hurt anyone with actual human rights. But do you see my point?

There he is! The best boy!

nice work, thanks for sharing your art!

Nice words inspire me not to give up drawing, thank you!

First, in most cases he does not copy the abilities. That being said, he already has a ton anyways so outside of very specific powers like GL’s ring constructs or zatanna’s spells, he either already has it or can convincing use his own powers to simulate it.

Now to your questions

1. As far as I’ve seen, no, there is no set limitation on replication or duration. That being said, most if not all powers and abilities at some point will become exhausting.

Ex: Supes can use his laser vision or GL can make a construct but for prolonged periods it likely would be hard to maintain.

2. For artistic reasons it’s probably easier to draw a default, ctrl+c ctrl+v. For in universe reason I believe, and I could be wrong, it’s because the Martian society as a whole don’t put too much stock into physical appearance because they are mentally oriented as a society and as beings.

Also if I can find it I think there’s a MMH run that touches on the topic of a martian’s physical appearance.

3. Yes, and this can be seen in one of the dc animated shows. He flips through tv channels and shape-shifts to match whoever is on the screen. Granted that’s video footage not a photo, but he was switching channels quickly.

- to expand that question I assume you’re asking “can he shape shift into something from a photo- and be 100% accurate” which the answer is likely no.

-Now does he need to be 100% accurate? Depends on the mission. Into the average goon? He can skimp out on extra moles and scars. Into a known villain? Yeah maybe get the colour of the eyes right.

-With that said the events where MMH has to shape-shift he’ll likely have the physical referent to copy or videos/photos of it from multiple povs .

Been thinking about Martian physiology (disclaimer: limited knowledge of both it and the entirety of Martian Manhunter canon).

While there's a debate and conflicting canonical mentions of whether MM can take on powers and abilities, one definite capability is the way he can transform into anyone (and anything)

Which leads me to a few questions:

Are there any limitations to transformation duration/anything he can't replicate?

Why do all Martians look the same/have a default?

Can MM transform into something based on a picture? (As in a never before seen, completely novel entity? Since he's transformed into humans before, I'll say he can transform into any human based on an image)

If we apply some principles of human biology to them, Martians are kind of like B cells. They can hypermutate antibodies to even capture/get close to disease states never before experienced. Martians probably possess massive genomes with lots of splicing and recombination to be able to recapture all the possible appearances. I'm assuming they're cuttlefish like.

rip D-16 you would’ve loved Decora Kei

last wip!!

As much as what can be inferred about a fictional culture while also understanding that human influence will be projected. We can take a guess for the association of at least 4 colours.

Green, white, red, and yellow. These being the colours of martians that have popped up in dc comics.

Green is obviously a well known being the colour of the main and most well known Martian. I imagine green still holds the symbolism life and prosperity as it does in a lot of earth culture

White however is not looked up in a positive sense due to the destruction the white martians. It likely doesn’t have any of the positive connotations that it does on earth ie purity, cleanliness, light, but it def has the negative connotations that earth has about “white” and “whiteness” (I say as a white person, we highkey suck)

Yellow as martians have one notable characteristic in which they tried to invade earth, otherwise there’s not much to infer.

Red being the colour of the entire planet definitely has similar symbolism to what earth has to green and blue. That being it’s common and in abundance, it may have symbolized prosperity as well before the war and disease wiped out a lot martian kind.

Then as for other colours

Orange is the most common colour of fire so I think itd be the colour rooted in fear and aversion

Blue is a rare colour for martians to find in nature, hence why it makes up a lot of Mmh suit. Also the Martian sunset appears blue (this is actual real life fact btw) so it my also be associated with renewal

Indigo likely has similar connotations that blue has if it’s a shade close to blue rather than red that is.

Violet is barely a colour on earth, humans fill in the gaps of light and boom purple. It is fully possible that the Martian comprehend violet light in a way humans can’t.

Black would be whites opposite, as it is on earth, but take on the positive connotations to whites negative connotations. It would be associated with calm and curiosity.

Hey, hey, I have a question, DC lore knowers

Do you have any canon material/headcanons about color associations in Martian culture? If not, would you like to treat this post as a long discussion to figure it out?

I got a sudden urge to know it and I don't feel like I know enough about the Martian culture in general to make it up. Plus, I have only my European perspective to aid me and I know it varies between cultures on Earth alone so it probably be better if more people worked on it.

But, you know. I think this topic has potential to be fascinating.

Pulling out this from a chat I had literally 3 hours ago

Just saying, it was a missed opportunity that Shoji wasn't the drummer. He would probably be good at it!! And with practice, he would kill it at playing more than one set!!

Not an ask but- YOUR J’ONN ART GIVES ME LIFE OMFGSHHDNNDJSJS. I love and adore j’onn and it can be so hard to find material on him and your art is just *chefs kiss* 👌.

OMG THATS SO SWEEEEETTT THANK YOU!!!!!!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 I AGREE jonns so nice but theres just not enough ppl drawing him n it can be hard to find stuff!!! I really appreciate you sending me this heartwarming message things like this keeps me going so thank you!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Dr. Thompkins: Your iron level is at 7.

Tim: Like out of 10?

Dr. Thompkins: 50.

Tim: oh

Beside is actual wife this is who he’s had a relationship with thus far.

In comics:

Fire (Beatriz da Costa), Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders), Scorch (Aubrey Sparks), and (possibly?) Black Canary (Dinah Lance).

All of these have been short term so far. Fire and Scorch I believe have been mostly physical relationships and MM has been using it to try overcome his fear of fire.

In shows/movies:

Rose Wilson (alt universe), an unnamed human wife (jl unlimited).

As far as non-canon ships go I haven’t seen much.

so i can probably google this but does J'onn - Martian Manhunter - have any love interests? Like I usually write/read him as aro ace but like is there anyone he is shipped with in and out of canon? Doesn't matter if they are human or not, I just want to know

Me: *spots this on pinterest* oh nice, it’s jus like my tumblr post, crazy coincidence

*5 seconds later*

Me: THAT IS MY TUMBLR POST

I feel fucking honoured that an artist drew it.

Suo: It’s pride month Sakura, you know what that means :)

Sakura: What- do you want me to like? Punch gay people?

Nirei: No-

Suo: It’s pride month Sakura, you know what that means :)

Sakura: What- do you want me to like? Punch gay people?

Nirei: No-

Anyone got lesbian books recs with the very specfic vibes of either Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck Babe” and/or Marcille x Falin from Dungeon Meshi?

Pls let me know, put in the comments, reblog it and put it there, or send it as a cryptic letter through the mail.

Stephanie: Fuck it, we ball *activates final boss*

*shit hits the fan*

Tim: But those were the rules of ‘fuck it, we ball’!?!?

Jason: You have to know how to ball though!!