Long Live The Legion

It's interesting that you mention the X-Men , because the comic was very popular among the gay community as being a mutant was seen as a metaphor for being gay. (*)  My deceased best friend (who was gay) was a huge fan of the X-Men and although I never talked to him about the X-Men /gay connection, I'm sure he would have agreed with it. It's funny because between 2008 and 2016, I wrote for various online websites about women's basketball, and near the end, for an actual WNBA team itself.  I had assumed that "being in the closet" was a binary,  that you were either in or you were out .  But as it turned out, a lot of WNBA lesbians were what someone called "all but out":  their families knew they were gay, their friends knew they were gay, but the general public didn't know.  They weren't keeping their homosexuality a secret , but at the same time they weren't going to hide it from anyone either.  It really just wasn't anyone's ...

With the world-altering news that metahumans and other powered beings exist (in many places, yes, an open secret or at least the source of many an urban legend or tall tale), there will definitely more than a few people with powers who will reveal themselves - and there will also be individuals who will discover their powers, but will no longer be almost immediately ushered into 'the world of The Masquerade ' ... the pre-Revelation world before Puerto Rico. For those people, they'll have to deal with how their revelations will affect them and their own worlds in an intimately personal manner. What will happen in terms of their careers, or academic lives, or personal relationships? Obviously, there will be people who are exposed to the extremes on the spectrum; there will be those who are ostracized by family and friends as fiercely as those who deal with racist, misogynist or homophobic responses from family members when they come out or enter into relationships or other...

These are random ideas on how economic systems will adjust to the presence of metahumans.  Note that you can't hold me to any of these thoughts but this was inspired by CM's post on economics. * Initially, there won't be much directional movement in the stock market, although there will be a lot of positional movement.  The presence of metahumans doesn't suggest any direction for the market to take.  For the five percent of people holding serious money who think, "the metahumans will take control, this will mean the end of money and metahuman rule, sell everything you've got", there will be another five percent that think, "this means that we can develop a shitload of goods and services and maybe have some new inventions, buy everything that you can possibly can". Result:  high trading, but the numbers don't budge!  There's a lot of "Stock swapping", the billion$ of dollars that would have sank the stock market by people liquida...

Daria woke up.   She looked at the clock, and performed some arithmetic.   She had slept for a total of eight hours.   [i]God, I thought I’d have slept for days after coming back from Mexico.[/i] She didn’t even have a cough.   She felt fine. Danielle had used her healing powers on the Legionnaires.   Daria was told that there was something akin to an “immune system collapse” after a stressful event, and Danielle’s powers would keep the Legionnaires from feeling like they had all hit the wall. There was a knock on the door.   “Shit,” Daria muttered, “[i]use the fucking ring[/i].” Daria, in her sleep shorts and T-shirt, grabbed her glasses and walked towards the door.   When she opened it, it was Charles waiting for her. “Hey,” he said. “Hey,” she answered. “Did we forget something last night?” “No,” he said. “We have a communique from Colonel Armalin.   He wants all of the Legionnaires to meet at high noon.   Twel...

What is the Legion Universe? When I started writing Legion, my plan was for D247 to be a universe which was pretty much the same as the canon Dariaverse, with the addition of superpowers.  However, any writer knows that when you start seriously worldbuilding, a universe becomes a living, breathing thing that, like a child, goes wherever the hell that it wants to go. Here are the aspects of the D247 verse as I understand them. * The Dariaverse. * A reinterpretation of the old Superboy/LSH comic books from DC comics.  The Legion is influenced in its structure and powersets by those old DC writers. * BG's build of the "Axeverse", which has now been merged with the above. * The "Uncleverse" which I think BG added first to D247. * Parts of the DC television canon, but probably not all of it chapter and verse. * The Ringbearer universe (which I think Lobinske created - I've never followed that 'verse strongly, so BG can correct me if I'm wrong) * Parts of ...

Daria and Quinn: BG posits that the Morgendorffers speak Spanish because they grew up in West Texas.  I would have to disagree just by looking at the numbers because: a)  The number of Hispanics in Texas actually exceeds the number of Spanish-speaking Texans.  This is because a lot of Hispanics in Texas are 2nd generation or above Texans, who tend to assimilate to the language that's most in use, English. b)  Of those Texans that speak Spanish but do not self-identify as Hispanic, the huge majority of those are the children of a Hispanic parent and a White Parent, with both languages being used in the home. Given that, let's look at each case separately.  I'll try to build my arguments in the direction of BG's theory whenever I can, but if I can't, I can't. Daria :  I can imagine that Daria might have had two years of Spanish, probably one year at Highland and another at Lawndale.  I think that Daria might like languages, because most right-brained pe...

Codes Red:   All Legionnaires report immediately. Blue:   Legionnaire has been injured, all available please respond. Yellow:   Legionnaire has gone missing. Black:   All Legionnaires and other personnel evacuate the building immediately. Gray:   Security alert, intruders in building, Legionnaires be ready to respond. White:   Building is to be locked down, no entry, no exit.  Legionnaires to security stations. Brown:   Severe weather alert, all Legionnaires to take extreme precautions. "If it's red, meet with the head." "If it's blue, then boo hoo hoo." "If it's yellow, we lost a fellow." "If it's black, then slip out the back." "If it's gray, someone's here to play." "If it's white, seal it up tight." "If it's brown, rain's coming down ." Numbers One:   Extreme importance. red - all Legionnaires drop what they are doing and convene immediately blue - "c...