#janus directive

[splooosh]

Major FORCE

Karl Kesel

#Janus Directive #Major Force #Checkmate #Amanda Waller #Suicide Squad #Black Thorn #Karl Kesel #gunz

[nerds-yearbook]

The Force of July (Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Lady Liberty, Majory Victory, Mayflower, Silent Majority, and Sparkler) got in a lethal battle with Task Force X (The Suicide Squad) in Suicide Squad 27# (cover date May, 1989). The conflict saw the murder of Abraham Lincoln Carlyle, Mayflower, and Sparkler. ("The Janus Directive 2: Scattermove", Suicide Squad 27#, Comic, Event)

#nerds yearbook #real life event #comic book #dc #dc comics #may #1989 #death #john ostrander #kim yale #john k snyder III #suicide squad #task force x #force of july #abraham lincoln carlyle #mayflower #sparkler #janus directive #checkmate #amanda waller #project atom #project peacemaker #bronze tiger #captain boomerang #count vertigo #doctor light #duchess #ravan #punch #jewelee

[emoprincey]

WHY WOULD HE TAUNT US LIKE THIS

#sanders sides #virgil sanders #janus sanders #ts virgil #ts janus #anxceit #he can't just do this #this scene was my favourite tho it was so funny #however as an anxceit shipper it was like whiplash in six directions #ts spoilers

[waters-and-the-wilde]

okay speaking of wrestling and also apropos of 'Rita drags him in by his tie', I was previously having Thoughts about imminently post Got His Ass wherein Rita is bound and determined to drag Nureyev kicking and screaming back into being family again so uh. scenario.

Rita corners Nureyev for A Conversation after they Get His Ass, like plot resolution denouement loose ends and stuff where he's in the clear debt-wise, made his peace with Slip however that looks, he and Juno Have Talked but they're like just on the other side of Having Talked. like Things Are Okay but also everything's just so raw and they're being So Careful with each other, it's like the early days on the Carte Blanche again and it's hard to shake the feeling that any more disturbance is going to topple whatever they're trying to rebuild

so Nureyev is just. his whole brain is full of fire alarms. he's vibrating in place like a greyhound that just got picked up at the shelter after it got spooked and ran away from home. this time he has no high ground as the injured party, he and Rita have known each other for a year now so there's a lot less of her initial 'sniff out the new beau' hesitancy, and sure he knows Rita well enough that it's obvious she's not gonna up and Ruin Him on purpose when she wholeheartedly volunteered to get him out of the mess he was in but still. she's the most unpredictable person he's ever met, he has no idea how this is going to go.

like logically he knows that he and Juno are working shit out and logically he knows that Rita's kinder than the people in her life deserve and might continue to tolerate him, but ultimately she's Juno's best friend who might well just be about to give him the mother of all 'you're on thin fucking ice' shovel talks, like she can't possibly still approve of him anymore right??

so he's scrambling to do preemptive damage control, he's throwing everything he's got into trying to Fix This. going on about how he knows what she must think of him and how sorry he is and that all he has to say for himself is that he only wanted to keep Juno safe, that he couldn't bear the thought of dragging him down with him, not when he was free and their family was together and he knows he should have ended it when Juno asked him to and he just wasn't strong enough and Rita's like. yeah that's nice i know Mista' Nureyev, hey can I tell you what I said to Mista' Steel when he told me about leaving you in that hotel?

and Nureyev shuts up and braces himself and nods very seriously and then she's like, actually you might wanna take off your glasses for this, and now he's extra confused and possibly even more terrified, and she waits until he's put them in a little case and set it on a side table and then there's just kind of a blur and a whole Rita NYEEERRRRRRAAaGGHHH!!!! noise and WHOOMP

pillow to the face

(for context. in my brain. I sorta presume that Juno told her about what happened with Miasma at some point in the aftermath of Newtown bc he owed her an explanation about both times he went missing, and yes she was glad that Juno didn't run away on an adventure across the galaxy without her but she knows a dick move when she sees one and also probably has the full context of baby Mista' Steel's self-sabotaging romantic choices (Juno said there was a whole thing about him walking out when he was with Diamond so I am assuming that Rita was privy to any number of related incidents over the course of those years). finding out that he passed up the chance to run away on a romantic adventure with the mysterious and dashing gentleman who he'd been mooning over for month, who was apparently also smitten with him the whole time and saved his life and tried to take care of him when he lost his eye?? she waited until he was staring into the bottom of his glass and then started whaling on him with a pillow)

anyway Nureyev doesn't get a chance to do much except yelp and sputter and get his arms up before she whacks him with the pillow again. and again. and starts yelling like 'YOu! are! such! a! big! dumb! baBY! Just! 'Cause! YOU! Think! People're better off! Without you! Don't make you! All! Noble 'n stuff!'

and he gets with the program pretty fast, which is to say that he's just on the floor letting her do her worst because that's just what's happening now

'alright I yield! I surrender! have mercy your honor!'

'DAMN! RIGHT! YOU! DO! DidN'T! Captain! Mom! Teach! you! aNYThInG! Big! Stupid! Tough guy! Tryin'a! Do it all! Yourself! We're! S'posed to be! FaMBLY! Now you're! Stuck with us! FoReVeR!!'

tackles him with the pillow. starts tickling him. both of them are shrieking. he vaguely registers that Juno has appeared and is slouching in the doorway 'my love i beg of you call off the attack i'll do anything' and Juno's like 'sorry honey i'm a little busy' and is holding up something that is probably comms-shaped and 'Nooooo, Juno how could you, JUNO SINCE WHEN DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECORD THINGS'

(and the thing is Nureyev was just letting it happen because he assumed this was catharsis for Rita's sake and sure it's not not for Rita getting it out of her system but she processes things pretty fast you know? and she runs out of steam and goes off to get a snack and he's just there on the floor with his hair in his face kinda punch-drunk and Juno sidles up and sits beside him and whoops turns out Rita found the Release Feelings Valve and Juno's like 'yeah she does that. went a lot easier on me but I think that was mostly because I'd just gotten out of the hospital when i told her about all that.')

(a couple months later Ruby turns up to scoop Jet in the nick of time from a dangerous raid on Dark Matters and he asks what it's been up to and it pulls up the footage that Juno copied to the databanks. he gets a good kick out of the fact that Rita was on the same page about the whole 'he is solitary and overconfident and alone he can only fail' thing and that she got the opportunity to address it in the most rita way possible)

#team janus beast #the penumbra podcast #rita my beloved #juno steel #peter nureyev #this is also a direct parallel to my headcanon about Jet scooping Juno like a naughty cat during midmorning scuffles on the Carte Blanche #and Rita getting comms footage of it as payback for two decades of having to Put Up With This Shit #which i stg i am going to actually write

[gayaethernaut]

Historians called them best friends

#blah blah Janus Directive 6776d BUT did Ava google about how fruity they were #samantha maxis #dr elizabeth grey #mw3 zombies

[essektheylyss]

Would I be a calmer person if I was willing to dnf a book? Undoubtedly. But then I wouldn't get to deconstruct exactly what I don't like about the book for my own learning process, and I would lose out on some prime kvetching, so I think it levels out.

#I'm like 70 percent of the way into this book and I am GOING TO FUCKING FINISH IT DAMMIT #it's increasingly annoying me cuz it will sorta go in a direction that seems like it might fix some of my problems with it but then it fails #and I think it's fundamentally cuz like. why are you expecting me to remember what the fucking heart indexes you're referencing are #while also explaining photons and carbon to me like I'm five #tbh the personified science concept chapters are the MOST annoying to me #cuz there has been one human narrator in this book that actually felt like they had a voice #and that person fucking DIED first of all (for no reason which would've been WHATEVER IF HE HADN'T ALSO BEEN THE STRONGEST NARRATOR) #and then these personified science chapters have at least some distinction in terms of voice #but the more there are the more annoyed I get about how LITTLE voice anyone else has #like why do Mary and Frank's chapters read the same as Janus Athena's meeting minutes. what the fuck bro. #anyway I'm an aggressive completionist and i am not giving up but I'm mad about it #megs is reading

[werewroammin]

moceit prompt:

patton wants to do something with janus (some kind of activity) but janus isn’t able to participate for whatever reason. patton says “thats okay! we can do something else instead!” and janus is in a state of shock that someone would ever do that for him

#the thing that leaves janus most speechless is genuine kindness #particularly when its directed at him #idk i think its cute :3 #sanders sides #sanders sides prompt #moceit #moceit prompt

[boombox-fuckboy]

this might be a weird question, but what are the most heartbreaking emotionally-painful audio dramas you'd recommend?

Not that weird, but not my strongest suit. Two I am sure of, and are both supurb.

Janus Descending: (Sci-fi, Horror). A xenoarcheologist and a xenoanthropologist go explore the ruins of an alien city. Interesting format: his logs are from first to last and hers are from last to first, and the whole thing is more tragic for it. Listen to the supercut instead of each episode individually.

Directive: (Sci-Fi). Records of a caretaker who spends 20 years on a long-distance ship watching over the sleeping passengers, and alone bar the limited AI and scheduled conversations with the other caretakers. Something isn't right. Heartbreaking but not for the obvious reasons.

Taking suggestions from everyone else as well (I'll even summarise and add them to the post), what podcasts took out your heart and ditched it at the nearest wall?

#idk emotions are confusing. especially mine. would appreciate external input #janus descending #directive #podcast recommendations #recommendations #█████ posts

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

A friend of mine sent me some of the checkmate 1988 issues with Blackthorn and Peacemaker and a VIGILANTE #12 that he got and I now officially have too many comics to keep on the floor now and had to put them in a box but I also have too many to easily sort chronologically and by character now and I am losing it about it just a little.

#Im gonna sort them now actually. #I am so excited about the Checkmates. I have so many comics with peacemaker on the cover now. #And a chunk of janus directive

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Two-headed tortoise Janus turns 25!

Janus, who also has two hearts, two pairs of lungs and two distinct personalities, would not have survived long in the wild as he cannot retract his heads into his shell to seek shelter from predators. But at the Geneva Natural History Museum, where he hatched in 1997, Bourgoin and her team of carers - who believe he is the world's oldest bicephalic tortoise - can cater for his every need!

He is under constant surveillance in case he flips over, which could be fatal, and survived a bladder stone operation in 2020. His heads need periodic treatment with vaseline to stop them getting sore when they rub together.

His two personalities also generate different moods and tastes that can occasionally lead to conflict, for example over which direction to walk. "The right head is more curious, more awake, it has a much stronger personality. The left head is more passive and loves to eat," Bourgoin said, adding that one head was partial to endives and the other to carrots.

#janus #tortoise #nature #science #medical facts #animals

[oscalesoffeeling]

whyyyy. anyway.

#was rereading the shirtless murder comic earlier and 😍 i love when he's a cruel ruthless monster #with deep seated/seeded issues ❤❤❤❤ he's so special to me... #oy!! the him of it all.... the tar.kin novel is my personal unintentionally self fulfilling prophecy <333 jsyk. #we're the same guy we're complete opposites etc. i need to kiss him on the mouth. #haha thinking about how fucked up his childhood was.... Wow. #it just. amazes me sometimes how much i relate to him ya know. #oy (dazed) ... the we. of it all. the duality of man. we're a janus figure btw #< saying shit but it's true. two headed beast of a man (us) #i wub him.... every day i realize once again just how intense and omnipresent my abandonment issues feel </3 #like. Holy Fuck your puppy (me) is like Fucked Up dude (directed at myself) #kissing my man with tongue rn.... our shared trauma.... our similar trauma.... power couple (same guy) #holding him to hold myself. kissing him. mwah. btw. his scars 😍 running my hands over them as we speak #keeping him close to me... special guy #ellie rambles about stuff #he spun the stars on his fingernails (tag)

[splooosh]

“Part 7”

Tom Mandrake

#Firestorm #Tom Mandrake #Janus Directive

[its-ahissionado]

GUYS I JUST REALIZED THAT JANUS'S CANE IN SVSR IS A SHEPHERD'S CROOK????

And he also uses it how a shepherd would use it, as if he's herding the sides/Thomas????

I MEAN THE SIMILARITIES HERE!!!

Janus using a shepherd's crook could mean three things:

1) that he is using the crook that's usually a symbol of faith in christianity to guide c!Thomas in the right direction

2) That he's using it as a disguise of good intent for c!Thomas to better trust him

3) cc!Thomas just liked the idea and gave it to Janus

Either way, this is just fueling my Janus-is-the-actual-(platonic)-mother-of-the-sides shit and niw Shepherd!Janus is in the mix too

#sanders sides #ts sanders sides #ts janus #janus sanders #tss janus

[emoprincey]

Sorry, we gave your boyfriend a redemption arc. Yeah, he works with us rather than against us now. He told us his name and he's invited to our movie night, we're going to wear onesies and watch Frozen

#sanders sides #virgil sanders #ts virgil #unreality #? #this is directed at Janus n remus

[orbmanson7]

And here's the last part of the analysis of the "The Sides Need a Nice Day" video, this time, let's talk about Janus and Remus.

(If you want to read the first part about Patton and Logan, go here.

If you want to read the second part about Virgil and Roman, go here.)

Right away, we have Janus letting us know he's about to one-up Patton and Virgil's attempts at cheering another side up, for whatever reason he feels compelled to do so (because acceptance isn't a competition or anything, right?), and says he will be giving Remus a nice day.

Specifically, he says that "freaks deserve nice days too" which is a funny but wonderful sentiment, because it shows that Janus sees Remus for what he is but also doesn't want him to change anything about that. Remus deserves to be who he is and enjoy himself, as they all do, which is kind of the whole point behind this video, even though it hasn't really been obvious up to this point, probably because Janus is being far more direct about it than the others were.

To explain, if you look back at Patton and Logan's part, you'll see that Patton wasn't trying to change anything about Logan and came up with things he would enjoy doing, but he wanted to do them far too quickly for Logan's liking.

And with Virgil and Roman, the suggestions all turned out to be things Virgil thought Roman would like but he changed those things to be something they might both enjoy instead, which wasn't really giving Roman anything he expected.

But Janus knows Remus very well, recognizes the purpose behind the trend is to simply give someone something they want and let them enjoy it, and he's prepared to properly do what the others had failed at, to give another side a nice day without flaw.

Also, Janus not knowing where the pens would be is likely meant as a little hint that Janus is still very unfamiliar with the light sides' area and where they'd keep things. Not sure how he knew where to find the note cards, though...

Janus goes looking for Remus in a dark closet, expecting him to be there but is still startled when it turns out he is.

He quickly gets to the point and simply tells Remus what to do and what the result will be. No constant questions back and forth, no push for an explanation, Janus just tells Remus what to expect immediately. See how easy that is?

Remus doesn't seem too pleased before picking the card, but is delighted after he sees the result. This may imply Janus has offered to do things in the past that have not been enjoyable for Remus, but that could be a stretch. We don't know these two well enough yet to really be sure.

Janus, though with little emotion, tells Remus to 'have at it' and that he's convinced Thomas to 'lean into his intrusive thoughts' for the day. It's very likely that this means Thomas is merely thinking out these scenarios, not actually participating in them, which would still be enjoyable for Remus as someone who delves in the imagination just as much as Roman. It also would keep Thomas out of any real-life repercussions for these actions and keep down his stress and anxiety, as well.

Considering DwIT showed that just the thought alone would often put Thomas on edge, it makes sense that these actions are thoughts being leaned into and imagined rather than legitimately happening (and would also explain some of the unused options on the cards). Thomas has learned by now that thinking about something doesn't make you a bad person, and who better to convince him to have a little fun with that than Janus?

Remus excitedly grabs for the next option, instantly delighted by what it turns out to be. This really does show that Janus understands Remus rather well, he knows what Remus enjoys and doesn't have to change anything to make him happy. This comes from knowing each other, likely for a long time, and Janus not just knowing his interests but also understanding why Remus likes something.

However, on the next round of options, Janus remarks that he can't believe he's doing this. He's either in disbelief that he's doing these nice things for Remus all to show up Patton and Virgil, or he is regretting how much effort he's put into this with how easily Remus is entertained by it.

Janus doesn't seem bored, but he's definitely doing this for Remus and not enjoying the activities alongside him.

As I mentioned in the last post about Virgil and Roman, this is likely in relation to love languages that have been on display throughout the whole video.

At this part with Janus and Remus, though, Janus is using his knowledge of Remus' interests to give him something he'll enjoy, making this the love language of 'gift-giving'. However, he's also acknowledging that these are activities others would be weirded-out by and then saying nothing negative about it. Janus is encouraging Remus to do these activities, regardless of what anyone will think, making this the love language of 'words of affirmation' in its own unique way, by validating what Remus enjoys.

While you could argue the others also did this, it means a lot more for Remus in particular, as someone whose entire presence is seen as a bad thing, that any ideas he may have are hazardous and awful, and he's shut down and ignored as much as possible at every turn. Something as simple as saying that it's actually fine if he wants to dangle a phone off the side of a bridge is incredibly kind to do for him.

But this also shows us that he's very used to being ignored and suppressed, because he was absolutely enamoured at the thought of getting to do any of these activities. From his reactions throughout this entire part, we know he would be equally as excited to eat paper as he would to summon Bloody Mary, which just proves that point. It's not just the extreme ideas of his that get pushed away, it's all of them. Remus finally getting the chance to act things out that he thinks up and enjoys must mean a hell of a lot to him.

Remus then thanks Janus in the end, a great big smile on his face, and Janus sighs and says "you're welcome. Don't say I never did anything for you."

It's possible this is just a little joke, but if it did mean something, it could be implying that Janus and Remus are not quite on equal ground in the current timeline of the plot. This would make sense, as Janus has just been accepted by Thomas, but only just. This still puts him leagues above where Remus is, even though Thomas does seem at least more used to him being around, at least.

This could cause a rift between Janus and Remus if it's not addressed soon, but Janus will still be working to earn his place amongst the others, so we'll have to see how that pans out.

It's also possible that Janus' line is more in reference to his overall purpose in the show. He operates more as Self-Preservation, but that doesn't have to be exclusive to Thomas, as many of the other sides can affect one another, as well. If he's attempting to restore some balance to Thomas' mental health by getting some of the other sides to understand their own biases (as he's been doing so far), this could still put Remus at a disadvantage until Remus is more accepted as Dark Creativity rather than Intrusive Thoughts. This may explain Janus' line if he's already been accused or expects to soon be accused of not paying enough attention to Remus, because Janus' priority will still have to be Thomas' well-being and that could put Remus at the bottom of his priorities.

He may not want Remus to change, but it's going to take a lot of work before the others can be ready to handle Remus without any changes, and he may know that a little too well, considering how long it's taken just for Janus to be accepted.

But, in the end, Janus did manage to prove his point in this part of the video, that he absolutely knows how to give another side a nice day, far better than Patton and Virgil, that's for sure.

He can be proud of that fact, for knowing Remus so well, but hopefully that isn't something he has to toss aside for Thomas' sake any time soon...

#sanders sides analysis #janus sanders #remus sanders #sanders sides #long post #ts spoilers #hella remus angst in here whoo #orbs thought bubbles

[belalugosi1882]

Bela Lugosi with Conrad Veidt in The Head of Janus 1920

In german: Der Janus-Kopf) is a silent horror film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but the source was not acknowledged in some German media due to changes in character names.

#bela lugosi #conrad veidt #fw murnau #silent horror movie #german