With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

...Goddammit, that was supposed to be 'infection'. I thought I fixed that typo...

 

A Google indicates that the word for fear of decay is ‘seplophobia’

Missing full stop.

’roars’, since ‘hurricane’ is singular.

 

A Google indicates that 'selpophobia' is 'fear of decaying matter', not 'fear of decay or decaying'.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Is that from Last Of Us?

Shouldn't that be seniumphobia then?

 

The Silver did not emerge, it was caught and made into an up grade for Hephaestus.

 

No. 'Clickers' is the accepted humanoid-friendly name for the insectoid species that make up the majority of the Orange Lantern Corps and Darkstars. Since they're not humanoid their derangements are different to ours, and 'burrow-guarding' is one of them.

No. For example, arachnophobia isn't arachnidophobia.

 

That was a Titan Seed, not an elemental Kingdom.

 

I as rereading this part, and noticed this error. That should say 'Dragon Ball Z'.

 

I've seen it spelled both ways, and I think I've even seen it spelled Dragonball Z in official art.

 

In official art? I doubt it, but in any case, Eris doesn't like it so why would she care how it's pronounced/written? She may be saying it wrong on purpose as well, just to needle the Illustres.

 

https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G9VHN9PPW/dragon-ball-z

Look at the official logo there.
Matches what I remember from watching the cartoon during the original run.

It may be supposed to be two words, but the stock footage (and it you know anything about old cartoons, stock cartoon footage gets a lot, and I mean a lot, of air time) had it all as one scrunched together thing. DRAGΘNBALL Z

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Diplomacy for the win! I always like it when ancient beings who think they know better than short-lived humans are proven wrong and are forced to fix their messes.

 

Man, The Grey is really growing on me, to be honest.

Like a mold. Or a fungus.

 

Does the Grey not remember yesterday because of Anti-Life or because fungus has no concept of time?

 

A fungUS. Fungi is plural. :\/

 

And not in the 'bad case of athlete's foot' sense, eh? Still, as long as his brain is unaffected, he should be all right... Until his ring charge runs dry. And then he gets to experience what Cordyceps victims do...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

...Was wearing power armour, I suspect. That or the Avatar-thing he's facing can cause spontaneous transmutation...

...Yeah, that would be the hardest of Nopes. Only a Nurgle cultist would find that enjoyable...

Noooope.

Talk about racing the clock. On multiple levels, even...

Ah, pointing out the short-sightedness of 'eat all the things'... Interesting tack.

Give it a day or two, see if you're still in the mood then...

True, short of the planet exploding, ecological breakdowns are not quick.

Sadly, it's so full of Anti-Life that its nihilism is off the scale.

Not that much of the Grey has the cognitive processes to comprehend magic...

Like in an old cartoon, where the utterly tantalising scent can literally hook a toon by the nose and pull them along...

Because even the Grey can understand that something can be 'not right'.

To be fair, do fungi of the Grey, even ones complex enough to carry on a philosophical discussion like this, have any sense of time?

Then again, they probably do feel the subtle cycle of 'grow, release spores, cease'.

It does seem about as close as the Grey can get to having an Avatar, really.

Wow, it's actually cognizant enough to recognise the possibility of falsehood... Heck, even comprehending the concept of falsehood is a huge step...

And holy shit, OL's actually getting through to it. Must be acing his Diplomacy rolls hard.

Now the Avatar-thing is starting to realise that this is badwrongnotwant, and not how it should be, isn't it?

'Me', huh? Interesting shift of perspective.

To be fair, 'yesterday' would be a nebulous concept in its newly sophont mind.

Since now it recognises that 'this is not how things should be', eh? Well done, Treebeard.

...Amusing that it uses OL's name for the fungoid...

Let's hope that's not Ivy going down for the count...

...And it speaks without nihilism. Impressive.

Since as an Avatar of sorts, it can command and control its Kingdom, its citizens...

Nice. Getting exactly what was needed. Now, will the Grey go along with that?

A fair question, especially if the growths are reluctant to give up their conquests.

Keep what you kill? It's a classic.

Oh, boy. This is gonna get even grosser, isn't it?

And why do I suddenly get the feeling it's something like Chakravatin Jagganoth?

Hoo boy. I hope he at least gets a chance to recharge before heading into the Grey-realm. Otherwise, this is gonna be chock-full of body horror. ...Not that it hasn't been so far. I suppose anything involving the Elemental Kingdom of decay is gonna feel icky. Still, if this means the pressure is off the Green, then it counts as a win. Or as close as it'll get while the Anti-Life broadcast is still underway.

 

Anti-Life.

It makes all you've done and accomplished in the past seem meaningless, so it can also fuck up your sense of time.

People with depression have sometimes reported that they can't keep track of time and what feels like hours were in fact weeks, or what felt like weeks were just days or hours.

 

It's kinda like Ares' deal in the comics on why he won't start a nuclear war.

True, the mass death may empower him, but everyone would die and he'd be deprived of food.

Good point.

Those giants in Tartarus said that time is for mortals, so the Grey may feel the same.

I'm kinda reminded of Gaia from the Iron Druid books.

She basically talked about the dinosaurs like she just saw them last week.

 

I hope Paul will be able to find some sort of ally in the Grey when this is all over.

 

Which is why diplomacy is working: anti-life is enforcing a sense of time, of false mortality to a thing that cannot know mortality natively.

 

I, for one, am not lichen it.

 

I like this term. Quite amusing.

’affects’, I think. Though I’m not really sure.

 

As is right and proper. *nods in green arbyfish*

 

I wasn't either. Anyone else?

 

No, they're both effect in this use case.

 

By my lights, 'affects' is what I think you're saying. While you can effect (cause) change, you affect (change) people and things. Effects affect things.

 

Diplomacy FTW. I always like it when an issue that can be solved with a reasonable conversation... is. I have a feeling it's a prelude to a champion of the Grey too.

 

It should be "affects", yes.

You can affect an effect, or modify an occurring event or condition. You can affect an affect, by modifying someone's mood. You can effect an affect, by bringing about a mood. You can effect an effect, by bringing about an occurring event or condition.