Saturday, June 14th, 2025 04:03 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6735 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 50 secrets from Secret Submission Post #964.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 03:56 pm
[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #965 ]




The first secret from this batch will be posted on June 21st.



RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

Saturday, June 14th, 2025 07:06 pm

Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: John Buscema

Inks: Tom Palmer


The gods of Asgard play a prank on Balder by trying to shoot him with arrows. Here comes blind old Hoder. What could possibly go wrong?


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Saturday, June 14th, 2025 04:15 pm

Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: Brett Breeding


Superman: Exile.

Superman stumbles upon a seemingly abandoned planet.


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Saturday, June 14th, 2025 02:12 pm

Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Starman helps with clean-up efforts in the aftermath of the alien invasion.


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Saturday, June 14th, 2025 10:04 am

Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Sal Buscema


Kids accidentally activate a deadly Wraith weapon.


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Friday, June 13th, 2025 10:22 pm
This time the task is to: "Draw a pony chilling // Draw a pony doing their favorite hobby". Right. 9_9

As always, draw (or sculpt or do a photo-montage), host the image of what you made in an online gallery and drop the URL into the submission form here, it's live. King Grimlock does not specifying the prompt in the submitter, but otherwise it's the usual: you can enter five different images per prompt. The maximum resolution is 2000x2000 pixels, so chose a link from your gallery that points to a version of your image that does not exceed 2,000 pixels on either side. Also, don't exceed 4 Mb per picture or the poniloader will plotz and choke on your picture. MLPforums and Discord work as image hosts in a pinch, although I think that there's an expiry date on those options. Xitter works somehow, it looks like Mastodon does, probably Bluesky as well, if you're savvy and Imgur apparently works too. I use Flickr. The pictures will be visible on EqD along with the next task at 9 PM (MST) on June 14th. My guess was right last time! So, I think that it will be this: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2025/06/newbie-artist-training-grounds-xv_14.html .

So be sure to get your drawings in well before 9 PM Mountain Standard Time (or midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time and 5 AM UTC). The grace period should give you at least two extra days and KG goes back to edit in the late submissions, usually around the same time he posts the next prompt. KG can and does change the close date on the submitter and keeps just two active at any given moment. I don't think there will be any late submission catch-up days in this NATG.

Off topic submissions, more than was usual in past years, are showing up in the gallery. That's because King Grimlock is also posting what Calpain is prompting on Bluesky in his fringe NATG and people have been hybridizing this NATG with it. Calpain's prompts today are pony paying a terrible price / pony facing the music.
Friday, June 13th, 2025 03:44 pm
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Lee and Kirby were not being subtle, and right now I'm not in a mood to be subtle either. If you're anti-LGBTQIA+ right now, you damn well know whose side you're on and I'm not interested in sugarcoating that... -- Al Ewing

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Friday, June 13th, 2025 06:06 pm

⌈ Secret Post #6734 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.
[Warehouse 13]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #963..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Friday, June 13th, 2025 01:34 pm

Guardian Readalong Banner

Welcome to this week’s readalong post!

To get caught up, you can read last week’s installment, or check out part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 (or the !readalong tag) for the rest of the posts for this round.

  • Chapter 11 Summary: Zhao Yunlan throws Record of Ancient Secrets into the Wangchuan River. He is not fined for littering but considers the consequences of the book’s disappearance and decides to buy it again while in the past. He leaves the book in his old bedroom, narrowly avoiding being caught by his mother. Zhao Yunlan tracks down Shennong to question him, only to have Shen Wei show up before Zhao Yunlan can get the answers he’s looking for. Shen Wei returns the two of them to Zhao Yunlan’s home in the present where they talk, with Zhao Yunlan explaining how he figured out that Shen Wei had planted false memories in the Great Divine Tree. Zhao Yunlan both pushes and reassures Shen Wei, who agrees to tell him the truth.
  • Chapter 12 Summary: A discussion is taking place at SID headquarters about what Zhao Yunlan might be up to. Daqing realizes that Zhao Yunlan was involved in danger he was trying to shield the rest of the SID staff from and sends Wang Zheng and Sangzan to Zhao Yunlan’s home to look for him, but neither he nor Shen Wei are they were then arrive. Guo Changcheng receives a call from a ghost asking for help finding her daughter. Shen Wei takes Zhao Yunlan to witness the birth of the gui along with when Kunlun first discovered them.

The corresponding chapters in the Chinese version on JJWXC/the fan translation are 89, 90, and 91.

Excerpts:

 

Zhao Yunlan Inspects His Old Room )

 

Shen Wei Exercises Restraint )

  

Zhao Yunlan Is The Best )

  

Boss Daqing Has A Moment )

  

Guo Changcheng Makes A Promise; Chu Shuzhi Is Surprised )

  

Questions: What are your thoughts on teenage Zhao Yunlan from the clues we get in Chapter 11? How do you feel about the way Guo Changcheng’s ability to talk to the dead here compares with the drama? What stood out to you the most with Zhao Yunlan gradually learning the truth in these chapters? If you worked at the SID, would you rather have Zhao Yunlan in the office or Daqing stepping in as deputy director on days you went in?  What do you think of Shen Wei’s approach to underwater breathing?

Feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you’d like. You’re also welcome to discuss anything else that resonates with you from these chapters.

If you’re interested in hosting an upcoming week, you can find available dates and sign up by visiting the new schedule.

Friday, June 13th, 2025 06:01 pm

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Batman sends Robin to train with the great martial arts masters of the world.


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Friday, June 13th, 2025 02:29 pm

Writers: Dennis O’Neil and Jim Berry

Pencils: Jack Kirby(!)

Inks: D. Bruce Berry


The Swiss hires an army of goons to take out Richard Dragon.


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Friday, June 13th, 2025 12:30 pm

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Denys Cowan

Inks: Rick Magyar


The Question must save a bus load of children from being blown up by terrorists.


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Thursday, June 12th, 2025 04:34 pm
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"Spider-Man has always been there for me. And I pitched it because I wanted to have a Spider-Man for me. So I said, 'The ultimate Spider-Man for us would look like us; a little gray in the beard, has to go to the store and get stuff for the kids.' I was like, 'That's what people would respond to now because we grew up and didn't have a Peter for us anymore.'" - Donny Cates on the original Ultimate Spidey pitch

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