Matt's Black Sky verse:
Matthew dies beneath the rubble of Midland Circle and his lifeless body was sucked into a whirlpool before carried through the sewers, eventually washing up on the Manhattan shore. Madame Gao had inexplicably also survived the building collapse as well as some of the dragon fossils she had in her possession when she made her escape. While searching for the body of the Black Sky, Gao’s men found Matt’s body and brought it back with them to Gao’s new hideout. Using the dragon fossils she had, she created enough Resurrection Elixir to bring Matt back in hopes of making him the new Black Sky. As life is breathed back into his body, he has no memories, no sense of self, or language. He is nothing more than a “vessel” with abilities that allow him to see without the use of his eyes. In his initial terrified moments of life, Gao showed him warmth and comfort, solidifying a need for him to be loyal to her and her alone.
Black Sky at her side, Madame Gao sends him on missions around the world to slowly rebuild the Hand and search for more dragon fossils.
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she was just a little silly
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quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women
"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)
"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)
"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)
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pavitr prabhakar i love you. hobie brown i love you. gwen stacy i love you. miles morales i love you. peter b parker you're on thin fucking ice but i still love you.
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Can we talk more about Carmilla and how she did something that was seen as literally impossible by pretty much BOTH heaven and hell (kill an exorcist angel) in order to make sure her daughters were safe? Like in that moment she probably didn't even think she would be able to hurt the angel, much less kill them, but just went on pure instinct and did anything she could to make sure they could survive the extermination
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was rewatching fabian’s baron moment on account of it being the most delicious piece of pvp in my recent memory and ally beardsley’s growth as a player just shone through so brightly and with such clarity. after dusting off their shock they immediately asked about the nemesis ward, had enough knowledge about fellow pcs stocked to remember adaine’s ac with such like frustrated confidence and certainty, suggested to siobhan to dimension door out of adaine’s room, like. they came into this making a character with 4 dex. and now the dice deity offered to roll a check to sense if adaine was in danger. making decisions, asking questions, getting invested in the story, trying so hard with the tools they have to save characters from danger; ally beardsley is an incredible d&d player.
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A lot of 2.07 analysis have been about how stede was getting too cocky and needed to "be humbled", and while there may be something to that, i haven't seen mentioned that stede cracked when ed left, but he only broke when he saw zheng recruiting his crew.
This is a guy who hasn't been particularly well liked or respected by his crew (which often is fair), and has been pushed to the side in favor of pirates such as calico jack or zheng herself. Real Pirates.
Well, stede is now a real pirate himself, and ed still left him, just like Ned Low said he would. Stede is a real pirate, and his crew still wants to leave. He saved them from zheng after they killed the love of his life, and they still want to leave to join the very person they had to be saved from, no fucking less.
And say what you will, but the guy chugging alcohol and screaming "i'm a sea god" is not the one that draws the sword.
The guy that draws the sword has tears in his eyes.
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I don't even understand all these pre season reviews that called Ed "irredeemable" like idk about you I love him a lot more now than I did before, he's so much more well rounded and richer to me s2 than he was in s1?? he's hit absolute rock bottom going around claiming he doesn't care and then he says that broken "finally" that might as well be a swansong for his character and yet his face lights up like an sos signal when he spots stede?? somehow his character just got off the charts insane and tangible to me now and it makes me adore him even more
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i know that everyone loves alice and i do too, but i think it’s time to recognize that she is absolute shit at coping with her lingering feelings for sam and as a result, is just making things harder for herself AND everyone around her
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bro died again LMAOOOOO
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redraw of that skybound panel 🥴
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